Sandalwood Nut High Tea

Sandalwood Nut High Tea

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Posted 2022-03-11 by Peter Hancockfollow

Sat 07 May 2022

Albany's Sandalwood Shop is out to highlight the flavours and health benefits of sandalwood nuts with a high tea to be held in Albany on May 7.



Retail and Tourism Manager for the shop, Tanya Robbins, says the nuts aren't readily available and an opportunity to be part of annual food and wine festival Taste Great Southern will provide an opportunity to promote the nuts.

A mix of sweet and savoury dishes featuring sandalwood nuts will be matched with local Parish Lane wines. Local Menang Noongar man Larry Blight will talk to the group about native produce and will join in a question-and-answer session.



Tanya says the idea of the high tea is to spread the word about sandalwood nuts and how they can be used as well as provide insight into local bush foods. The plan is to make the two-hour event something more than a bit of fun with a drink.

The event was held for the first time last year and tickets sold out.



The nuts which make their way to the Sandalwood Shop come from Santaleuca in Narembeen, who have their own plantations of the native Australian species of sandalwood, Santalum spicatum.

It is the only dry arid species of sandalwood, although the company also has plantations of the tropical variety, Santalum album, sourced from India nearly two decades ago which are now grown in hundreds of hectares across the Top End. Both varieties are distilled at Albany for distribution worldwide.



The nuts harvested from the Australian variety are grown mostly on plantations in the Wheatbelt, and make for an extremely healthy and versatile cooking ingredient.

The high tea, to be held from 2.30pm to 4.30pm on Saturday, May 7, the day before Mother's Day, aims to show off the flexibility of sandalwood nuts presenting guests with bite-size, sweet and savoury, morsels.

The food will be matched with some of Parish Lane Wines small-batch wines. People attending the high tea will get to take home some of the nuts and recipes to be able to try cooking the nuts themselves.



Tanya says they want to increase people's knowledge about sandalwood and what a versatile product it is. Sandalwood nuts don't have a strong flavour like, for instance, walnuts, which means that pretty much any recipe that features nuts can be adapted to use sandalwood nuts.

As well as having a mild flavour, sandalwood nuts are extremely nutritious, often described as a superfood because of their high, 38 per cent content of Omega 9, and 17 per cent protein and fibre.

The nuts absorb the flavours of other ingredients being used in dishes which Tanya says makes them ideal for matching with a variety of wine styles. The nuts are processed at Albany's Mt Aroma sandalwood factory.

According to Tanya, the Sandalwood Shop is the Australian home of sandalwood.



Everything in the shop is based around sandalwood and includes oils, wood, powder, nuts and nut oil with cosmetics, including their 2BYoung range, manufactured on-site.

The business has now been operating for more than 20 years, starting out by distilling emu oil, progressing to sandalwood when emu oil fell out of favour. The nuts are available online and instore at the Sandalwood Shop.

Tickets for the event are $48 and available from https://www.wineandfood.com.au/event/sandalwood-nut-high-tea/

Taste Great Southern features more than 35 events and runs from May 5 to 15.

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