Easter Flavours

Feel Good Hot Chocolate has been expertly crafted from a balanced blend of pure double Dutch cocoa, toasty Australian wattleseed, açaí berry, Victorian sea salt, cassia and unrefined low GI coconut sugar. It's one of our very favourite ways to enjoy chocolate and feel good.

Flavour Notes: Chocolatey, slightly sweet, warmly spiced

Cuisine: European

Heat Level: 0/5

With a more rounded flavour than its zesty, fresh sibling, dried orange peel has a beautiful, bitter sweetness that gives depth and fragrance without overpowering. Dried orange peel matches well with duck and game meats, and any dish complemented by stewed fruit. It is also used in the Japanese sprinkle, Shichimi Togarashi.

The signature spice of the famous chai tea, cardamom is sweet and aromatic with camphoric tones. This bright, complex flavour brings sophistication to cakes, biscuits, puddings, scrolls and French toast; curries and stews; rice dishes; stewed and preserved fruits; red meats; and drinks. This ground cardamom is milled from mature pods into a fine powder, offering a more concentrated flavour than the whole pod and ready to use straight from the jar.

Our Vanilla Bean Sugar uses only the fine seeds from Madagascan vanilla, which are hand-stripped out of each pod. Vanilla bean is the dried and cured seed pod of a tropical South American climbing orchid and it takes up to three months to get market ready.

This sugar also pairs well with pork and, of course, with anything containing chocolate. Great for baking and compotes, simply use in place of normal sugar.

Flavour Notes: Sweet, fragrant, floral

Cuisine: Madagascan

Heat Level: 0/5

Double Dutch Cocoa is milder in flavour compared to ordinary cocoa and is ideal for hot chocolate, baking and ice cream. Its dark colour, smooth flavour and low fat content make it a perfect substitute for regular chocolate in cooking. With a neutral pH level, it does not react adversely with baking soda.

Stick your nose into a sack of cloves and you will understand why ancient mariners claimed to smell the approach of the clove islands while still far out to sea. A terrific and much-used pungent addition to Christmas ham and baked goods, stewed and pickled fruit and vegetables, cakes, pastries and biscuits, German Glühwein, and many North African spice blends. This ground clove is milled fine and ready to use straight from the jar, an ideal option where whole cloves would be too strong or difficult to remove.

Cassia - also known as Dutch cinnamon or baker's cinnamon - is bolder than true cinnamon. Cassia's sweet and spicy fragrance and flavour is more intense than that of cinnamon. Its slight bitterness makes it distinctly different from cinnamon and gives its sweetness depth. Cassia is delicious in more robust sweet dishes such as fruit cakes, strudels, compotes and crumbles. It is often used in curries and stews for a balancing sweetness.

Open a jar of our Cinnamon and once you smell the difference, you’ll realise that not all cinnamon is the same.
Ceylon cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum - literally 'true cinnamon') is grown in Sri Lanka and has a sweeter, more floral and delicate character than anything you've likely used before. Our A Grade is the finest tier available, with a high essential oil content and an exceptional fragrance straight from the jar.
Subtly sweet and woody, cinnamon imparts a delicate warmth that melds and harmonises other flavours. It is beautiful used in baking, porridge and warm drinks, or added to savoury Moroccan and Indian dishes such as tagines and curries for a subtle, aromatic sweetness.

This tuberous rhizome has been travelling across oceans since Chinese navigators began growing it in planter boxes onboard their vessels. Versatile and well represented in many cuisines, ginger in its powdered form can be added to stir-fry dishes, noodles and rice, sauces and marinades.

This light, fragrant spice adds a wonderful depth to apple cake, and can replace mixed spice in many recipes. The inclusion of rose petal and calming chamomile add to the blend's delicacy. Add it to the fruit filling or directly into the dough. Not to be dismissed in savoury dishes: try in broths, on roasted cauliflower and in rice dishes alongside cardamom and lemon rind.

Flavour Notes: Floral, complex, warming, delicately spiced

Cuisine: German

Heat Level: 0/5

Chocolate Spice uses Double Dutch cocoa and fragrant winter spices of ginger, clove and nutmeg to give warmth to baked goods, cookies and hot chocolate. Simply substitute Chocolate Spice for some of the cocoa in any chocolate-flavoured recipe. It's delicious when used to spice up chocolate cakes, cream fillings or added to your morning coffee for a spiced mocha.

Flavour Notes: Warmly spiced, rich, fragrant

Cuisine: Dutch

Heat Level: 0/5

No fresh garlic on hand? No problem! Our Garlic Lovers' Spice can be used as a quick substitute for any recipe calling for garlic. A carbohydrate's best friend, use it with bread, pasta and potatoes. Combine soft butter and Garlic Lovers' Spice for an easy garlic butter, to be spread on a sliced baguette for the perfect garlic bread. For a garlicky mashed potato, add 1 tsp when mashing. This will quickly become a pantry staple, earning its place beside the salt and pepper!

Flavour Notes: Garlicky, savoury, slightly herbaceous

Cuisine: European

Heat Level: 0/5

Picture a provincial Greek taverna, with heady wafts of oregano and grilled meats drifting from the kitchen. Our Greek Grilling Spice captures those classic flavours of oregano and garlic, with native lemon myrtle standing in for citrus, rounded out with rosemary and other warming spices. Mix with oil and marinate before grilling or frying, or rub into roasts such as a leg of lamb. Its bright, herbaceous and savoury notes suit seafood just as well, or sprinkle over fried saganaki for a fragrant lift.

Flavour Notes: Herbaceous, garlicky, zesty, Mediterranean

Cuisine: Greek

Heat Level: 0/5