Does anyone know where I can get pure anise oil?

I'm trying a couple new cures from Scott Haugen's book on egg cures (Frank Amato Publications). A couple receipes call for pure anise oil but I'm unable to locate it. I can find the usual stuff at GI Joes and Fisherman's Marine (Mike's, Pro-Cure, etc) but it ain't the same as the real stuff.

If anyone has any ideas of where I can buy it in the Portland/Vancovuer area or perhaps a website where I can order it, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Doesn't the book say to check with the local pharmacist?

Brian

cohoangler-I think I have a contact at home--Ill try to remember to bring it and email you--that is a great recipe! As well I have one for soduim bisolphate (sp?)

Try looking in the spice section of your local grocery store. Anise is used in cooking all the time (IE Licorice)

google "anise oil"
tons of suppliers

Coho Angler,

You must be married and your wife does the shopping.

Just go to the grocery store and you'll find it in the spice section as mentioned above.

I always called it fromunda cheese...

My question is why this scent is a fish attractant??? Anybody know?

My grandmother used to go through anisette candy by the pound and recently tried it myself. Tastes just like compacted licorice, but better.

Anise oil? Who needs eggs? Full disclosure, I would rather fish the eggs, nothing better.

Interesting recipe: take a couple or three tablespoons of Vaseline, place in a cup and float it in a pan of boiling water. Watch it melt to the viscosity of motor oil. Once melted add 3 or 4 drops of anise oil (not the extract, water soluble kind found in the supermarket). Stir to mix briefly and remove from pan of boiling water. While still warm and liquid add small balls of sponge about the size of cranberries. Smash them with spoon along side of cup to provide full absorbtion of vaseline mixture. Remove from cup and cool in ice water.

These little balls of spice will catch steelhead; at least they did in Michigan in a pinch. Washington steelhead may be far too sophisticated for this trick but I will try in the event I have no eggs.

(standing on the bank of the Hoh, in a spot that never holds a fish, with a clueless expression on my face)

Anise extract contains alchahol, not a good thing to add to eggs, get the pure stuff.

i got a pint of the prue off of ebay just do a search on ebay

A few years back I had the buddie of a buddie in the front of the boat pulling plugs on the Salmon. after a while the guy pulled something out of his pocket and was smearing it all over his plug.. I could smell it... Anise ...
Long story short... by the end of the day that crap had migrated to just about every piece of tackel I had.. anything he touched.. and somehow everything else in the boat...

The local drug store has it and a little goes a long ways.

anise oil smells like & tastes like nightcrawlers...

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Got my pharmaceutical grade stuff from a supplier in portland Or. Check the yellow pages for chemical suppliers & ask them - they will turn you on to the TRUE pure. A one ounce bottle has lasted me 3yrs or more. One drop is enuff to knock you over. I have lost the phone# to the supplier -I'll have to look for it in about another year!

Santiago,

Sounds like a neat trick. Can you microwave the vaseline? Also how long do the scented sponge balls last in and out of the water? Ever use any other scents--say shrimp oil?

What you are looking for is "Pharmaceutical Grade" anise oil. Check with your local pharmacists (particularly the ones that do "compounding")....not that many carry it, so you may have to hunt a bit. The stuff in the supermarket is not the same.

By the way, regarding nightcrawlers, as a kid I inadvertantly tasted many worms after baiting my hook and picking up a sandwich without washing my hands....worms DO NOT taste like anise/licorice, trust me! The taste is distinct and unforgetable.

Thanks for the help. I will continue to check local pharamacies. I haven't been able to find it yet, but I'll keep trying. The grocery store stuff is anise extract, complete with alcohol, which I don't want on my eggs.

Call All-World-Scientific in Lynnwood I believe @(425)672-4228.They will send you the pure anis oil and the sodium bisulfite that Scott call's for in the book.The authores favorite cure kick's some butt on the steelhead.How ever I add three table spoon's of the pro-cure red dye not cure to his favorite to get the egg's red.These have worked real well over the past two winter steelhead season's.
Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

P.S. The guy I dealt with is named Scott.