I love the intense, licorice-y flavour of aniseed, although it’s not a spice everyone appreciates. To me, it seems a little old-fashioned, perhaps because of the vintage-looking packaging of Flavigny ...

My Christmas fantasy always involves dispensing with gifts, stopping the music and replanting all those doomed trees. But there’s no way I would pass up baking cookies with ginger, doctoring eggnog ...

The other day, a food-in friend was sharing with me the pleasures of eating Guyanese-style Aniseed Biscuits. I have to confess that my memory of the biscuit was not as vivid as his; I vaguely remember ...

Easy-bake cookies with an aniseed twang and a soft, citrussy icing Aniseed is one of those flavours you either love or hate. It’s similar to liquorice (which I can’t stand), but a little aniseed ...

It's like a magic trick: when the first drop of chilled water hits the transparent spirit, it turns an opaque pale yellow and a heady plume of aniseed aroma rises from the glass. Under an azure sky, ...

Stomach bloating has affected most people at some point in their lifetime, according to the NHS. It can make the stomach feel stretched and puffy, and is generally uncomfortable, it said. Certain ...

The bread is mostly made into large loaves, but I like making individual dinner rolls for everyone around the table or serving them for afternoon tea with a good strong coffee, or even alongside a ...

Along with sherbet pips and chocolate mice they are poised to reappear in shops again. Supermarket chain Waitrose has announced it will start stocking aniseed balls again as a result of its Great ...

Also called anise seed, the spice has an intense, licorice-y flavour. An aid to digestion, it goes well with seafood and in biscotti I love the intense, licorice-y flavour of aniseed, although it's ...