Deborah Peterson's Pantry
327 Sumneytown Pike
Harleysville, PA 19438
215-256-4615


 

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Updated 5/6/08.
All text and images copyright Deborah Peterson 2002-8.

Website design and maintenance:
K L Martz

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."



Allspice/Jamaica Pepper
Whole
1 oz, $3.50

Allspice/Jamaica Pepper,
Powder'd
1/2 oz, $2.00



Image to come


Almonds, Parch'd
2 oz, $3.75


Aniseed
1 oz, $3.25


Aniseed
2 oz in a glass
bottle, $7.00


Annato, Whole
1 oz, $3.00

 



Annato, Powder'd
(Whole pictured)
1 oz, $4.00

   
Bay-leaves
1/4 oz, $1.00
  
   
Caraway Seeds
1 oz, $2.50
  

Cardamom, White
(on the right)
1 oz, $4.00


Cinnamon Sticks, Ceylon
1 oz, $4.00
  
 
Cinnamon Sticks, Cassia
10" - 12" segment
$1.50 each
 

  Cinnamon, Cassia (Bark)
1 oz, $4.00
   

  Cinnamon, Cassia
Powder'd
1 oz, $3.75
   
 
Cinnamon Bark, Ceylon
Powder'd

1 oz, $5.00 
   
 
Cloves, Whole
1 oz, $3.00
 
Cloves, Powder'd
1 oz, $4.50
 

Fennel Seed
1 oz, $1.00

Ginger, Race (Root), Dried
1 oz, $2.50

Ginger, Dried and Powder'd
1 oz, $3.00


Juniper Berries

1 oz, $2.75
   

Mace, Powder'd
1 oz, $7.75
 
     
Mace, Blade in a Tin
1/2 oz, $3.50
 
Mustard Seed
1 oz, $2.00


Mustard, the
Genuine Flour of
1 oz, glass jar, $3.75
  "The berry of a West Indian tree of the myrtle family.  To most English speaking people the tree is calledpimento and the berries allspice." John Nott
Mustard, the
Genuine Flour of
6 oz, stoneware jar

DISCONTINUED
 
Mustard Balls
Each, $.75

Mustard Cakes
Each, $1.00
   
     
Image
to come



Mushroom Powder
1 oz in corked jar, $4.75
   
   
Nutmeg, Whole
1 oz, $3.50
 

 
Nutmeg, Powder'd
(Powder'd not shown)
1 oz, $4.75


Saffron, English
1 gram, jar, $7.50

 
Saffron, Lancaster
3 grains in paper, $3.50

 

Saffron, Tincture of
Offered only as a Food Colorant
 

Vanilla Bean

from Madagascar
Package of 2, $2.00


 

Peppers


Peppercorns, Black
1 oz, $2.50


Peppercorns, Black, Powder'd
1 oz, $3.75
(Powder'd not shown)


Peppercorns, White
1 oz, $2.50


Peppercorns, White, Powder'd
1 oz, $3.75
(Powder'd not shown)


Pepper, Cayenne
Chyan / Cayan / Kyan
1 oz, $3.00


Pepper, Jamaican
See Allspice above

Pepper, Kitchen
17th Century
1 oz jar, $4.50


Pepper, Kitchen
18th Century
1 oz jar, $4.50



Pepper, Long, Whole
1/2 oz, $3.25

Pepper, Long, Whole
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

  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