NOW - Deliciously Squeezable

NEW from Stokes

BUY ME NOW - HERE

Customers have been asking for squeezable sauce bottles for a long time now - understandably as 97% of tomato ketchup bought in the UK is sold in squeezy bottles.

It has taken a while to be able to respond to demand whilst at the same time meeting our own high standards and responsibilities.

NOW, we're delighted to say - here it is - our 100% recyclable bottles of squeezy joy.

You can squeeze out just the right amount (which is lots in our family) from these family-friendly bottles; they seal easily and last longer; granny can use it without struggling with the lid; and younger children can use them with far less mess.

Less waste, all taste

We are not replacing our iconic bottles and jars, just adding
squeezy bottles as another option for customers who prefer them.

Also NEW

Stokes Reduced Sugar Tomato Ketchup

BUY YOUR SQUEEZE SENSATION - HERE

Again, by popular demand, we are proud to present a brand new Tomato Ketchup with 30% less sugar than our traditional, award-winning Tomato Ketchup and we've done it without sacrificing any of the taste.

It's perfect for the health conscious, looking for fewer calories but still enjoying 'delicious'. We only do delicious.

All taste, less waist.

The Reduced Sugar Ketchup is available exclusively in our brand new 100% recyclable squeezy bottles together with Stokes popular Tomato Ketchup, Real Mayonnaise, Brown Sauce and Original BBQ Sauce.

NOW... 
Deliciously Squeezable

Limited Edition Collection Sets - yours here

Stokes Tomato Ketchup squeeze is our award-winning ketchup packed with plump, sweet tomatoes that have ripened on the slopes in southern Italy. We gently simmer 200g of these beautiful tomatoes for every 100g of ketchup.

Stokes (Reduced Sugar) Tomato Ketchup squeeze offers the same rich tomatoey joy, crammed with the same ripe Italian tomatoes but with 30% less of the unrefined raw cane sugar used in our award-winning ketchup.

Stokes Brown Sauce squeeze is a truly grown up brown sauce. You can smell the exquisite difference the moment you flip open the lid and squeeze. It is a lush sauce, rich with extra date puree, sweet with black treacle and heady with a unique blend of Persian spices.

Stokes Real Mayonnaise squeeze is really very special. We use only whole eggs from British free range Welfare Assured hens, into which very fine British rapeseed oil is drizzled to create the product's core. Then, to make this real mayonnaise stand out from the rest, extra virgin Cretan Koroneiki olive oil is added too.

Stokes Original BBQ Sauce squeeze is thick and smoky with natural blossom honey and molasses-style sweetness. It can be used as an accompaniment, a marinade for BBQ spare ribs or a dipping sauce for juicy BBQ 'wings'.

Order your squeeze sensations - here

  From the home of great sauce

If good food makes you happy

...adding Stokes will make you smile ;)

www.stokessauces.co.uk

01394 462150

May Day Weekend - celebrating Summer's birth

Beltaine Inspirations

Ancient Celtic celebrations on the eve of May Day were fire festivals to welcome the Summer or the 'light part of the year'. The Irish-Gaelic word for May is Beltaine, literally translating as 'brilliant fire'.

Our own reflections and celebrations of May and the coming May Bank Holiday Weekend are of course food related. We are truly blessed with the range of fresh, vibrant vegetables, succulent meats and wonderful fish that this little island so generously provides.

Asparagus 
with Mango & Orange Dressing

To 25 g of melted butter, whisk in 3 tbsp of Stokes Mango & Orange Dressing and 1 tsp of Stokes Dijon Mustard. Simply dress your poached new season asparagus and add a few shavings of Parmesan cheese.

Spring Chicken & Couscous


Here's how:

Fry 8 bone-in chicken thighs skin side down then flip them over until they are brown. Remove them from the pan and set aside. Finely slice 2 onions and grate 2 cloves of garlic then soften them in the same pan with a little more oil.

Roughly chop 2 or 3 carrots and 2 leeks. Add the carrots to the pan but hang on to the leeks. Stir in 2 tbsp of Stokes Cider & Horseradish Mustard and 2 tbsp of our Bloody Mary Ketchup, return the chicken and cover with about 500 ml of chicken stock. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes, then add the leeks and simmer for 10 minutes more.

Remove the chicken, carrots and leeks with a slotted spoon and put 250 g of couscous into the pan. Mix it into the liquor with a squeeze of lemon and top up with boiling water to just cover the contents, if necessary. Cover, and let it stand (off the heat) for 5 minutes. Now, tip the contents into a serving dish, fluff up the couscous and pop the chicken and vegetables on top.

Lamb with Minted Greens

Succulent lamb leg steaks are delicious, particularly if your butcher will cut superb thick tranches for you.

Here's how:

Cook your steaks as you would normally. I like to pan fry them in butter and thyme leaves, pop the pan in the oven for 7 or 8 minutes then finish off on top, basting constantly in butter, removed from the pan and rested.

Keep the pan and its cooking liquors. Cook your greens - asparagus, manges touts and courgette - and drain the green vegetable-infused water into a bowl or jug. Stop the greens cooking in ice cold water, drain and set to one side.

Stir 1 tbsp of flour into the lamb's cooking liquor to make a roux, then pour in the vegetable water stirring it into a gravy, adding a lamb or chicken bouillon for depth of flavour. Stir 2 or 3 tsp of Stokes Mint Sauce into the gravy to add the sweetness of the garden mint and cut the lamb fat with the gentle acidity of the vinegar.

Re-heat the greens by tossing them in oil or butter with 2 tsp of our Mint Sauce (which is garden sweet unlike most others) and serve with the lamb, gravy and mashed potato.

Lemon Drizzle

You'll need:

• 225 g of butter
• 225 g of caster sugar
• 275 g of self-raising flour
• 2 tsp of baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 4 tbsp of milk
• 4 tbsp of Stokes Lemon Curd
• 175 g of granulated sugar
• The juice of 2 lemons

Here's how:

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4. Mix the granulated sugar and lemon juice to create a runny glaze and set aside. In a large bowl, combine the remaining ingredients, beating to a smooth batter.

Line and grease a baking tray (30 x 23 x 4 cm), then pour and level the mixture into it before baking for 40 minutes. Whilst still warm but cooling on a wire rack, brush the cake with the glaze.

More foodie thoughts for the week:




For the sweeter tooth - 
extraordinary jams, marmalade and of course ... lemon curd - here.









Forest Holidays - 
SAVE 10% just for loving Stokes. Breakfast in dappled sunlight  - here.
 


   





Something new - 
keep up to date with news, videos and social sharing - here.

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

 FOOD MADE BETTER 

www.stokessauces.co.uk

01394 462150

Jam and Preserves, Marmalade and Curd

Spread the joyous fruit

Traditional jam recipes are simple but often time consuming, using equal quantities of fruit and sugar. 

Commercial producers can use as little as 350g of fruit per kilo, with some jams using even less fruits and more additives and flavouring. Water and extra sugar are added to create the ‘jam effect’. 

‘Extra’ jam has a legal minimum requirement of 450g of fruit per kilo.

We don't believe in minimums

We prefer more with our Strawberry, Raspberry and Blackcurrant extra jams. Stokes Extra Blackcurrant Jam has 510g per kilo – 51% of delicious fruit as our grandparents would traditionally have made it.

In the Old Stables at Rendlesham, knowing eyes watch over slow cooking blackcurrants, as they simmer, waiting for that very fine line between ‘perfect’ and ‘oops’. 

Our kitchen staff have an enviable expertise and are as passionate about their jams, preserves, relishes and sauces as we all are.

Magic Marmalade

Toast and marmalade - now that's a good breakfast. Toast with Stokes Seville Orange Marmalade - now that's a great breakfast. Once more, we took a traditional English recipe and made it our own to create a classic fine cut marmalade rich with the tangy taste of delicious Seville Oranges.

But it’s not just the amount of fruit. 

Use 50% poor quality blackcurrants and you 

can only create poor jam. 

It's all about ingredients

We go to uncompromising lengths to make sure the blackcurrants we use have that signature juicy sweet / tart flavour; the raspberries are rich, sweet and luscious; and the succulent strawberries have keynotes of Wimbledon.

Stokes use unrefined cane sugar, which is a typical artisan sugar. Produced in smaller batches, it is less processed and retains all or most of the cane molasses around the sugar crystals. 

This natural sweetness and additional depth of flavour simmer gently with the extra fruit to give the deeply flavoursome jams we love to deliver.

Lemon Curd

Stokes Lemon Curd is a truly wonderful thing with lemons, rich butter and British free range eggs.

A simple recipe, simply made and simply delicious. Delicious on toast, pancakes, lemon tarts and lemon sponges. 

The guys in the kitchen made a lemony sponge last week and a step-by-step guide was filmed - see the video here.

Enjoy !

Paddington knows ... it's got to be Stokes

Get your Extra Fruity Jams - here

 
More foodie thoughts for the week:




May Bank Holiday Weekend - 
celebrate the coming summer with these seasonal fresh flavours - here.









Forest Holidays - 
SAVE 10% just for loving Stokes. Breakfast in dappled sunlight  - here.
 


   


Something new - 
keep up to date with news, videos and social sharing - here.

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

 FOOD MADE BETTER 

www.stokessauces.co.uk

01394 462150

Something new is on the horizon

Don't miss the fun
on Facebook & Twitter

Coming Soon

We are so excited about the latest development from Stokes, but can't say any more until later next week. It's the culmination of 4 years research, planning, trials, tasting, training and a brand new production line.

Please, follow us to keep up with developments on Facebook and Twitter.

We know you'll be excited too.

While we wait, try these pastry twists. Watch the entertaining instructions on the video below and you'll see how easy it is to twist up a tasty snack this weekend.

Watch the video - here.

As if Hot Cross Buns aren't tasty enough, with a coat of our delicious Lemon Curd, they are absolutely amazing. Enjoy a little spread over the Bank Holiday Weekend.

Great idea Emma - thank you for sharing. I'm glad you've chosen my favourite Stokes Brown Sauce. I didn't even like brown sauce before I tasted this. The thought of having it with a cheese and Parma ham toastie is making my mouth water ... I know what's for supper tonight !

More foodie thoughts for the week:





May Bank Holiday Weekend - 
celebrate the coming summer with these seasonal fresh flavours - here.










For the sweeter tooth - 
extraordinary jams, marmalade and of course ... lemon curd - here.

 



   


Forest Holidays - 
SAVE 10% just for loving Stokes. Breakfast in dappled sunlight - here.

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

 FOOD MADE BETTER 

www.stokessauces.co.uk

01394 462150

10% OFF Forest Holidays - just because you LOVE great ketchup

10% OFF for loving Stokes

Our friends at Forest Holidays have given Stokes Sauces customers a 10% saving at Forest Holidays. 

Escape to one of ten idyllic locations, choose from stunning cabins set deep in woodlands, on the edge of mighty lochs, or in bright forest meadows and make your holiday your own.

Take an uplifting break in the forest. Enjoy invigorating woodland walks as the forest awakens around you. 

When the lengthening days drop into dusk, head back to your cabin for a cosy meal; then the thrill of the hot tub in the night air.

Enter STOKES to save 10% - here - when you book and holiday by 31 December 2019. 

The 10% discount can be taken at any time of the year including school holidays and Bank holidays and can be taken across all of our cabin types.

 

Terms:

• Discout code applies to the cabin prices only and not any extras
• Discount code may not be used in conjunction with any other offer and cannot be applied retrospectively.
• Forest Holidays reserve the right to withdraw this offer at any time.

 Always pack the essentials

Stokes Breakfast Collection - order yours here

Stokes 'taste aficionados' have declared these five to be their favourite breakfast accessories.

Our Bloody Mary Ketchup is an inspiration. Some of its fans feel it should be listed like a protected building or become one of the modern day Wonders of the World - the Hanging Gardens of Rendlesham does have kind of a ring.

It is an award-winning ketchup with Vodka, Worcestershire sauce and a special blend of Bloody Mary spices - perfect for that 'morning after' butty.

The star of our show and the reason that Stokes even exists is our thick and juicy Tomato Ketchup.

We gently simmer 200 g of beautiful sweet Italian tomatoes reduced to every 100 g of ketchup. It really is Mediterranean sunshine in a bottle of intensely thick tomato ketchup.

I genuinely didn't like brown sauce until I tasted Stokes Brown Sauce. You can smell the grownup difference the moment you twist off the lid. It is a lush sauce, rich with extra date puree, sweet with black treacle and a unique blend of Persian spices.

There's strawberry jam and there's Stokes Extra Strawberry Jam. It's a rich and fruity soft set jam, crammed with strawberries giving it its full flavour and lush colour. We make it to our take on a classic English recipe.

Toast and marmalade - now that's a good breakfast. Toast with Stokes Seville Orange Marmalade - now that's a great breakfast. Once more, we took a traditional English recipe and made it our own to create a classic fine cut marmalade rich with the tangy taste of delicious Seville Oranges.

More foodie thoughts for the week:




May Bank Holiday Weekend - 
celebrate the coming summer with these seasonal fresh flavours - here.









For the sweeter tooth - 
extraordinary jams, marmalade and of course ... lemon curd - here.

 


   


Something new - 
keep up to date with news, videos and social sharing - here.

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

 FOOD MADE BETTER 

www.stokessauces.co.uk

01394 462150