Looking for mahleb online (Middle Eastern spice)

[GreenEggsAndNichts]

(have also asked in Chat but thought I should ask here as well, I know some people stick to their favourite forums and don't always go there!)

I am looking specifically for mahleb (or mahlab, or mahleppi etc, the small cherry stones). I'd like it in the stone form, to grind at home. The only shops I've seen online selling it (Steenbergs) have it already ground, but it loses its flavour really quickly after it's been ground, and I don't use it that often.

So, can anyone help me? Or if you have friends who might celebrate Eid, I know some biscuits which are popular for Eid feature mahleb, maybe they have an idea where I could get it?

I live in the middle of the East Mids btw, not near a city, though I could get to Leicester easily enough if someone knows of a place that has it.

Thanks in advance!

I can get it in any number of Asian shops in Tooting so I'd think that you would have some choice in Leicester too. If you're really stuck let me know and I'll get some and post it to you if you like.

oh that's kind of you to offer :) I'll see if anyone has any online shop ideas first.

When I say I can get to Leicester easily enough, I mean I could get there if I knew of a specific shop to go to. I don't know the city well, and don't have much of an idea where to go for this sort of thing. I've tried to ask in the few Middle Eastern shops in the town I'm in, but no one seems to know what I'm talking about...

Mahlab seeds on the drop-down link.

Thanks This will sound stupid, but I guess I should have mentioned no Ebay. I've got a ridiculous thing with my Ebay account at the moment (they temporarily suspended it because my account is related to an email address on that list of hacked emails/PWs which was leaked from Yahoo last month. Now I can't log back in, and I can't contact Ebay without logging in to the account. Am beyond annoyed with it because I've had that account since the late 90's and I'd like to keep that history and feedback).

If I need to, though, I'll make another account to get it. I appreciate the link!

Well PM if you don't have any joy - there's a shop literally at the end of my road that I get all my spices from for about 3p a bag! No grief to grab some and post them, seriously.

oh lovely :) I might just take you up on that, if I don't hear anything else!