Orgeat Syrup is now made with Almond but in the old days it was made with Barley (Orge in French, hance the name, orgeat). Try these combinations or stick with the most popular mixer--plain water--for a flavorful thirst quencher (1 part syrup to 7 times water).Hence the cries in a French cafe for un lait fraise (milk with strawberry syrup), un Perrier menthe ( Perrier with mint syrup), une tomate (pastis and grenadine syrup), une mauresque (pastis and orgeat syrup), un diabolo fraise (lemonade and strawberry syrup), or un tango (beer with grenadine syrup).Fruit syrups have always been a part of the French way of drinking, whether mixed with water, Perrier, lemonade, milk, pastis, or even beer.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Natural ingredients Comment: I ordered the Teisseire for making mai-tais after noticing that the Collins orgeat I had been using didn't even list almonds as an ingredient. When it came I had my family do a blind taste test for me. It actually tastes pretty similar to the Collins, both are sweet and taste like almonds. But the Teisseire has an additional nutty or earthy flavor that the Collins does not. It's made from almond extract, not just flavoring, and sugar, not corn syrup, and nothing with a scary chemical name.
It does cost almost twice as much, plus shipping, but it takes me months to go through a bottle so it's worth it for me. It has a very nice pour spout that eliminates the crusty buildup you get on a screw-top bottle like Collins. My only complaint is the metal container. You can't see how much is left, and I think glass would be less likely to impart a taste. Right now there is no metallic taste at all, but in six months who knows?
Note that the Amazon listing is wrong in a couple ways. The bottle is metal, not plastic, and the name is spelled "Teisseire." Yes, I know it looks plastic in the photo, but it really is metal shaped like that.
