Deborah's Pantry of test-driven and hard to find culinary supplies

Each Pantry item comes packaged in a manner reproducing 18th century packaging using contemporary images and extant examples, whether packaged in paper packets, cloth bags, or glass or earthenware containers.

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The Spices
Spices, Peppers, Salts and Seeds

In 1771, the Encyclopaedia Brittanica defined spice as, "any kind of aromatic drug that has hot and pungent qualities: such are pepper, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, etc."

Whole Allspice/Jamaica Pepper 1 oz, $3.50	Powder'd Allspice/Jamaica Pepper 1/2 oz, $2.00	Image to come Parch'd Almonds 2 oz, $3.75	Image to come Parch'd Almonds 8 oz bag, $12.00	Whole Aniseed 1 oz, $6.50
Aniseed 2 oz in a glass bottle Currently unavailable	Whole Annato (Anchiote) 1 oz, $3.00	Powder'd Annato (Whole pictured) 1 oz, $4.00	Bay-leaves 1/4 oz, $1.00	Image to come Caraway Pods 1 oz, $4.00
Caraway Seeds 1 oz, $4.25	White Cardamom (on the right) 1 oz, $4.00	Cassia Buds 1 oz, $3.75 The unopened flowers of the cassia (cinnamon) tree. Picked just before blooming, then dried in the sun. Cassia buds look like small cloves. The picking has to be timed perfectly, therefore the quality can vary greatly from crop to crop. Their flavor is close to cinnamon but with more of a floral, winey scent. They are commonly used for pickling and mulling spice blends.	Ceylon Cinnamon Sticks 1 oz, $4.00	Cassia Cinnamon Sticks 10" - 12" segment $1.50 each
Cassia Cinnamon (Bark) 1 oz, $4.00	Powder'd Cassia Cinnamon 1 oz, $3.75	Powder'd Ceylon Cinnamon 1 oz, $5.00	Whole Cloves 1 oz, $3.00	Powder'd Cloves 1 oz, $4.50
Coriander Seeds 1 oz, $3.50	Powder'd Coriander 1 oz, $3.25	Fennel Seed 1 oz, $1.00	Dried Ginger Race (Root) 1 oz, $2.50	Dried and Powder'd Ginger 1 oz, $3.00
Juniper Berries 1 oz, $2.75	Powder'd Mace 1 oz, $7.75	Blade Mace in a Tin 1/2 oz, $3.50	Mustard Seed 1 oz, $2.00	The Genuine Flour of Mustard 1 oz, glass jar, $3.75
The Genuine Flour of Mustard 6 oz, stoneware jar DISCONTINUED	Mustard Balls Each, $.75	Mustard Cakes Each, $1.00	Mushroom Powder 1 oz in corked jar, $4.75	Whole Nutmeg 1 oz, $3.50
Powder'd Nutmeg (Powder'd not shown) 1 oz, $4.75	Nutmeg with Mace on it Currently Unavailable Great demonstration item - the lacy mace covering is still on the nutmeg.	English Saffron 1 gram, jar, $8.50 Lancaster Saffron 3 grains in paper, $5.50	Tincture of Saffron Offered only as a Food Colorant	Vanilla Bean from Madagascar Package of 2, $2.00

Peppers

Whole Black Peppercorns 1 oz, $2.50	Powder'd Black Peppercorns 1 oz, $3.75 (Powder'd not shown)	Whole White Peppercorns 1 oz, $2.50	Powder'd White Peppercorns 1 oz, $3.75 (Powder'd not shown)
Cayenne Pepper Chyan / Cayan / Kyan 1 oz, $3.00	Jamaican Pepper See Allspice above	Kitchen Pepper 17th Century 1 oz jar, $4.50	Kitchen Pepper 18th Century 1 oz jar, $4.50
Whole Long Pepper 1/2 oz, $3.25	Whole Long Pepper 1 oz, $6.00

Salts

The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica described alum as "a peculiar kind of salt, sometimes found pure, but oftener separated from several substances...in England, from a whitish or bluish stone, called Irish Slate." (EB - v.1, 129)

Salts for kitchen or table were described depending on its source. Sea salt was retrieved from the ocean.

Allom / Alum 1 oz, $3.25	Sea Salt, Coarse 1 oz. $.50	Sea Salt, Coarse 8 oz, $3.50	Sea Salt, Fine 1 oz., $.75
Sea Salt, Fine 8 oz, $4.75	Salt, Basket (finest salt) 1 oz, $1.50	Salt, Basket (finest salt) 8 oz, $6.00	Salt-Peter / Nitre 1 oz, $4.00 THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER RECOMMENDED FOR FOOD USE. Salt-petre was used in the 18th century for preserving meats and butter. THE TYPE OFFERED HERE IS NOT FOR MAKING GUNPOWDER.
SALT SAMPLERS	Salt Sampler, Boxed Corked jars in an attractive box. Coarse, fine, and basket salts and salt-petre. $18.50	Image to come Salt Sampler, in Paper Coarse, fine, and basket salts and salt-petre. Wrapped in paper, no box. $8.50