The art of great taste

Delivering great taste is an art


Taste is the most personal of the senses. What’s ‘wonderful’ to one may be ‘disappointing’ to another. In our world, caring about 'taste' is caring about 'life'. 

So, we work as a team when creating new sauces and sauce variations. We combine an impressive array of experienced taste buds whose owners nod, shake, smile or grimace as ideas are introduced and ingredients are tested.

Our constant is to create exciting recipes, source and test the finest ingredients and refine the art of preparation and cooking skills. Only when it's all nods and all smiles can we agree the ‘wow’ factor has arrived. 

Treating our taste buds to 'wow'

Tomatoes are the backbone of our core products. Their quality and consistency are paramount. We searched and found what we needed ripening in the Mediterranean sunshine on the hillsides of southern Italy. Instead of milling the fruit, we simmer it (as you would to cook out a passata at home).

This intensifies the natural flavour and retains the delicious consistency we prefer - that's quality. 

That’s quality, now quantity:  we use a massive 200g of these beauties in every 100g of our Award-Winning TomatoKetchup – that’s taste.

 A lovely chap called Robbie mixes half wild and half cultivated Essex horseradish, washed and shredded for the deeply rewarding warmth of our Creamed Horseradish Sauce.

 Our Brown Sauce is like no other. Date purée, black treacle and a unique blend of spices make this a rich, dark, sweet and spicy bottle of pure delight.

Our Beetroot Relish is textured with abundant juliennes of beetroot. They’re cooked in claret to tenderise the rich ruby shards and intensify their earthy flavour.

The fresh flavour of naturally dried Dead Sea salt means we use less of it. This has to be good.

Quick freezing retains the freshness, texture and flavour of our vegetables.

Once Stokes kitchen staff have passed a series of intensive training modules, their knowing eyes are allowed to watch over slow cooking blackcurrants, waiting for that very fine line between ‘perfect’ and ‘oops’. 

Our ‘oh so yummy’ Lemon Curd is simply: butter, sugar, British free range eggs, lemon ... lots. Simply exceptional.

A host of big, juicy North American cranberries bubble gently with sugar to balance the sweet tartness of our intense Stokes Cranberry Sauce. 

For our Red Onion Marmalade, the onions simmer gently, reducing for two hours to caramelise and deepen this, sweet, authentic marmalade.

The olive oil we use is Extra Virgin Koroneiki olive oil, beautifully dark green and rich in Mediterranean flavour. This, together with the eggs of British free range hens and the oil from British rapeseed, make our Real Mayonnaise so ... delightfully Stokes.

More foodie thoughts for the week:

 

Chicken - our free range favourite with some tips for a saucy roast here.







Quick and easy meals in minutes - just add Stokes here.









Seasonal Leeks - an early tribute to St David here.

If good food makes you happy
...adding Stokes will make you smile ;)

 FOOD MADE BETTER 

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