Taste = 'Stokes' = Taste
For Rick @stokessauces it became a personal mission to make tomato ketchup that tastes wonderful and lifts everything you eat with it. Also a mayonnaise as delicious as your best ever home made version, but available instantly in a jar.
His drive was his passion for 'taste'. Our reward is the full flavoured Italian tomatoes in Stokes Award-Winning Tomato Ketchup and a velvety smooth Mayonnaise as 'Real' as Stokes Real Mayonnaise.
To give our taste buds something to really test their sensory receptors, Rick and the team focused on the quality of the ingredients, the recipes that combine them and the expert production skills that create them.
Rick didn't want to make a brown sauce because - basically - he didn't like it. But Pete (a crucial part of the Stokes team) told Rick he'd make a sauce worthy of Stokes that would change Rick's perception of this fine old English relish.
Pete was right, Rick was impressed and the divine Stokes Brown Sauce was born.
Ours is a rich and spicy brown sauce with a deliciously fruity finish. It is rich in date purée (9%) and made with black treacle (8%) along with our unique blend of spices.
Ingredients
Our tomatoes are grown by a number of carefully selected farmers on the sun drenched foothills of southern Italy. They are plump, sweet and juice and we use lots of them, in fact a full 200gms are simmered gently to satisfy the flavours of 100gms of Award-Winning Tomato Ketchup.
The extra virgin olive oil that makes our Real Mayonnaise
so special, comes from the Koroneiki olives that grow in abundance on
Crete. Its deep green colour adds the final extra smooth luscious depth
to both its flavour and creamy texture.The sensations of our Creamed Horseradish Sauce come from using half wild and half cultivated horseradish.
A lovely chap in Essex grows, picks, shreds and supplies both from which we create the intense flavour without the over fiery finish. It's warm and fulfilling.
We mix julienned 'shards' of beetroot (including the skins for that earthy flavour) for our Beetroot Relish. The beetroot simmers in Claret to intensify this juicy, freshly processed preserve - no pickling, pure cooking.
People who 'love Stokes', love the taste. People who don't 'love Stokes' just haven't tried it yet.We have recently started taking a bottle or two of Stokes Ketchup, Chutney or Mayonnaise instead of a bottle of wine when we visit people. Last year my cousin David and his wife Jane were the recipients of a Stokes Tomato Ketchup and a Real Mayonnaise.
Now, David is one of those chaps who eats at Le Manoir when in Oxfordshire and Tom's Kitchen in Edinburgh.
I did the taste test with him against something else in their cupboard and now he buys Stokes products as 'kitchen essentials' from his local, Thorncliffe Farm Shop.
Another 'Stokes lover'. Another 'lover of taste'.
Recycling - don't just recycle, re-use your Stokes glassware. For some facts about recycling and 10 fun ways to re-use your glassware, click here.
Pancake day, or 'Stokes Lemon Curd Day as we call it. Some tasty ideas here.
A medley of marvellous mustards - flavoursome recipes for flavour packed mustards here.
If good food makes you happy
...adding Stokes will make you smile ;)
...adding Stokes will make you smile ;)
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