Post #308390 by The Gnomon on Wed, May 23, 2007 8:07 AM

Other than the fact that I make my own, I cannot find orgeat syrop in my area either.

Because I have been known to completely ruin a batch, as I did this past Mother's Day, I keep a stock of Tesseire Sirop D'Orgeat on hand, which is what I'm using now.

Even though I live in the Nation's Capital, where you'd think you could find just about anything, I have to get mine shipped from Atlanta, from a place called Touch of Europe.

I also get my Orange Flower water and Rose water from them as well. I can find Rose water in stores, but not Orange Flower. It pays to order $50 worth of stuff from them at a time to get free delivery by FedEx Ground.

The one I use is Teisseire all natural Sirop D' Orgeat. It comes in funny shaped cans (not plastic bottles as the site might say) which are usually dented, sometimes brutally. Evidently, that's the way they arrive from France.

One I have not yet tried is not called orgeat, but it seems like it probably is. It's called Rieme all natural French almond syrup. Almond syrup is typically clear, whereas the Rieme Almond Syrup looks just like orgeat, milky.

Touch of Europe has 3-bottle and 6-bottle deals.

It's a shame to not be able to walk into a store and pick up orgeat, rock candy syrup, fassionola, and all the other things we like to use, but at least here's a place where you can order French imports.

[ Edited by: The Gnomon 2007-05-23 08:20 ]