Angelica Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Angelica (Angelica archangelica) is a tall biennial or short-lived perennial of the carrot family, Apiaceae, native to northern and eastern Europe from Iceland and Scandinavia to Russia, and grown as a garden plant and in Lapland as a vegetable. In its second year it sends up a hollow, ridged, purplish stem 1 to 2.5 meters tall carrying large, bright green, twice-divided leaves with inflated sheathing bases and huge globe-shaped umbels of tiny greenish-white flowers that hum with insects. Every part smells sweetly aromatic and musky; the candied green stems decorate cakes, and the root flavors gin, vermouth, and Benedictine. We extract the dried root.