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	Whole Aniseed 1 oz, $6.50	Bay-leaves 1/4 oz, $1.00	Caraway Seeds 1 oz, $4.25
Caraway Pods 1 oz, $4.00 Powder'd Caraway 1 oz, $7.00	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. Their flavor is close to cinnamon but with more of a floral, winey scent. They are commonly used for pickling and mulling spice blends.	Cassia Cinnamon Sticks 10" - 12" segment $1.50 each	Cassia Cinnamon (Bark) 1 oz, $4.00
Powder'd Cassia Cinnamon 1 oz, $3.75	Ceylon Cinnamon Sticks 1 oz, $4.00	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, $3.00	Dried and Powder'd Ginger 1 oz, $4.00
Juniper Berries 1 oz, $2.75	Powder'd Mace 1 oz, $7.75	Blade Mace in a Tin 1/2 oz, $4.00	Mustard Seed 1 oz, $3.00	Mustard Seed 1 oz in a corked jar, $4.75
The Genuine Flour of Mustard 1 oz, glass jar, $4.75	Mustard Balls Each, $1.00	Mustard Cakes Each, $1.00	Mushroom Powder 1 oz in corked jar, $4.75	Whole Nutmeg 1 oz, $3.75
Powder'd Nutmeg (Powder'd not shown) 1 oz, $4.75	Nutmeg with Mace on it Each, $6.75 Great demonstration item - the lacy mace covering is still on the nutmeg.	English Saffron 1 gram, jar, $9.50	German Saffron 3 grains in paper, $6.50	Vanilla Bean from Madagascar Package of 3, $4.00

Peppers

Whole Black Peppercorns 1 oz, $2.50	Powder'd Black Peppercorns 1 oz, $4.00 (Powder'd not shown)	Whole White Peppercorns 1 oz, $2.50	Powder'd White Peppercorns 1 oz, $4.00 (Powder'd not shown)
Cayenne Pepper Chyan / Cayan / Kyan 1 oz, $4.00	Jamaican Pepper See Allspice above	Kitchen Pepper 17th Century 1 oz jar, $5.00	Kitchen Pepper 18th Century 1 oz jar, $5.00
Powder'd Long Pepper (Powder'd not shown) 1/2 oz, $6.00	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. $1.00	Sea Salt, Coarse 8 oz, $3.75	Sea Salt, Fine 1 oz., $1.00
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	Salt Sampler, in Paper Coarse, fine, and basket salts and salt-petre. Wrapped in paper, no box. $8.50