Family, Food and Easter Fun

Spooned generously over a homemade or shop bought cheesecake, our award-winning Blackcurrant EXTRA Jam lifts an ordinary dessert to standards you’ll be proud to share.

The recipe’s right HERE.

Our Blackcurrant EXTRA Jam is simmered to perfection, with over 50% fruit, this jam is laden with real blackcurrants making it full of fresh fruit flavour and with a rich texture to savour.

The Great Taste Award 2021 awarded our Blackcurrant EXTRA Jam the coveted 3 Stars, making the following comments:

“An intense blackcurrant flavour and colour. The consistency is soft and velvety with good viscosity. The balance between the fruit and sugar is excellent.

Deep purply colour that is incredibly appealing on the eye, and that one judge remarked: “belongs on a painter’s palette!“

On our palates it is decadent, with the sharpness of the berries perfectly balanced with the sweetness. Texturally a delight. Sticky and luxurious.

This blackcurrant jam had a wonderful bright aroma — almost glowing! Would be perfect on yoghurt for breakfast as well as toast.”

Order your ‘painter’s palette’ – HERE.

Andy – he’s our Resident Chef – has created this recipe for Chocolate & Raspberry Jam Brownies for our Recipe Pages – HERE.

Learn how to make them ‘crispy‘, ‘squidgy‘ and ‘wobbly‘ too !

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.

Try Portobello Mushrooms, seasoned, drizzled with olive oil, gently roast for 10 minutes. With crispy salad, crunchy gherkins and a good dollop of Stokes Chilli Jam inside your favourite burger buns.

OR

For the carnivores, a ground beef & pork burger grilled to perfection, stacked with lettuce, tomato, cheese and bacon all lavished with our salsa-style Burger Relish. Should really call it a ‘smile burger’.

Take a wander through the virtual shelves of our Relish & Chutney section – HERE.

What’s your Mustard choice? Classic English, smooth, flavoursome, warmth without the eye-watering burn; or seed-bursting joy with a gentle, lingering horseradish finish in our wholegrain Cider & Horseradish Mustard?

Sweet garden Mint Sauce;  Bramley Apple Sauce made with Bramley apples and dry British cider; Creamed Horseradish Sauce with single cream and shredded Essex horseradish root; and the fruit simply oozes flavour in our Redcurrant Jelly.

Such classic condiments make classic Sunday roasts. Whether spooned onto the side of the plate, or stirred into sauces, casseroles and gravy to add real depth of flavour poured over the plate. Make Easter tastier still.

Condiment Corner – well worth a visit – HERE.

If you’re planning to fire up the BBQ for Easter, we can help – deliciously:

• As well as BBQ Sauces to suit all palates,
• we have a Collection of Ketchups to make your hot dogs sit up to be served;
• a marvellous Mayonnaise Family to make salads and side dishes sing for your supper;
• and our the amazing flavours of our Condiments Corner, will make your burgers smile.

S’mores Galore