Chapter I
Book III · Chapter I · The Afternoon Show
The Aniseed Conjurer
Liquorice and chocolate, conjured from aniseed and vanilla
In the back room of an old lolly shop, Ambrose the fox tips his top hat and pulls liquorice out of thin air: a pinch of aniseed, a curl of vanilla bean, a flourish over strong black tea. The queue swears there's chocolate in it too; he just winks. The show is such a hit that by sunset nobody wants to leave, so Ambrose sets off to find one last trick that will send everyone happily home.
Where it's from · Aniseed is the tiny seed of a Mediterranean herb, and the flavour behind old-fashioned liquorice lollies. Vanilla is the dried, fermented pod of a climbing orchid first grown in Mexico and now mostly in Madagascar. There's no liquorice root or cocoa here: the chocolate-liquorice trick is all aniseed, vanilla and flavouring over black tea.
- Caffeine
- High
- Good for
- Treats, Weight
- Tastes
- Sweet, chocolate
Chocolate-liquorice style black tea with aniseed & vanilla · Hot · As a latte · Ordering opens soon
