Baking

Pistachio sticks, 1kg. Slivered, even pieces, for the top of a kunafa or a baklava, for a gelato, for a cake, for mandi or biryani, and for muhalab...

Black raisins, 1kg. Larger and a bit tarter than the golden ones. Fruit cake, scones and bread take them. Jewelled rice and pilaf take them. Irania...

Golden raisins, 1kg. Sultanas, sweeter and softer in taste than black raisins. Hot cross buns, oatmeal cookies, scones, fruit cake and a Christmas ...

Rice flour, 1kg, fine. Naturally gluten-free. Dosa and idli batters take it. Thai and Vietnamese cooking use it. A fritter batter gets crisper with...

Rice flour, 400g, fine and naturally gluten-free. The smaller bag, for a home kitchen or a small restaurant that is not milling dosa batter every m...

Walnuts, 1kg, shelled halves and pieces. Slightly bitter, buttery. Brownies, banana bread and walnut cake take them. Muhammara is the dip. A walnut...

Oreo, 144 wrapped biscuits. Each piece is about 36.8g. Chocolate wafers with a cream filling, wrapped one by one, so a tray or a mini-bar can hand ...

Bourbon vanilla pods, 250g. These are the plump, oily pods pastry uses for ice cream, crème brûlée, panna cotta, and pastry cream. Madagascar is wh...

Cooking cream, 18% fat, 1 litre. President makes this lighter than a whipping cream, so sauces turn smooth without the weight of a 35% cream. The c...

Cream chargers, 10 pieces at 8.2g. ProWhip+. Food-grade nitrous oxide for a whipping siphon. A short sleeve for a cafe or a pastry section that is ...

Cooking and whipping cream, 31 percent fat, 1 litre. Rama. Fat enough to whip, and still usable in a pan. Milk fat 31 percent. A kitchen carton for...

Cornflour, 400g. Real Value packs pure corn starch for the same jobs as any kitchen cornflour: sauces, gravies, custards, batters, velveting, and a...

Cornflour, 400g. Safa packs pure corn starch, the thickener a sauce, a gravy, a custard, and a fry coat all share. Naturally gluten-free. Mix it wi...

Cream chargers, 50 pieces, 7.5g each. Select. Food-grade nitrous oxide, for a whipping siphon. The 7.5g charger is the larger standard size. A cafe...

Fine white sugar, 2kg. Granulated, the sugar a baker weighs and a coffee station spoons. Cakes, cookies and pastry take it. Sweets and confectioner...

Clear piping bags, 55cm, pack of 100. SNH. Disposable bags for a pastry bench. Large enough for a big piping job. One hundred bags is a bakery pack...

Snickers, 24 bars of 50g. Chocolate, peanuts, caramel, and nougat. A small case for a counter, a mini-bar, or vending. One bar is a serve. A hotel ...

Snowflake cake flour, a 2.5kg pack. Fine, low-protein soft-wheat flour for tender cakes, scones and delicate pastries. Bakeries and cafes use it wh...

Ghulash pastry, 500g, frozen. Thin layered sheets, the Egyptian filo style, for sweets and savouries. A pastry section thaws the pack in the fridge...

Sweet'N Low, one carton of 3,000 sachets. Pink packets of saccharin sweetener, zero calories. One sachet goes in a coffee or a tea. The carton is t...

Saffron threads, 4g. The dried red stigmas, a deep colour and a floral, honeyed smell. You use threads, not a spoonful. A little stains a pot of ri...

Caster sugar, 25kg. Tate and Lyle. Fine granulated sugar, finer than ordinary granulated and coarser than icing. It dissolves into batters, cream, ...

Caster sugar, 500g. Tate and Lyle. Fine granulated sugar, the grain British cake recipes expect. Finer than ordinary granulated, not as fine as ici...

Tate and Lyle dark brown sugar, a 500g pack. Dark brown sugar with more molasses than the light, so the flavour is deeper caramel and toffee and th...

Icing sugar, 500g. Tate and Lyle. Powdered sugar, milled fine, with a little starch so it doesn't cake as fast. For icing, dusting, and anything th...

Tate and Lyle light brown sugar, a 500g pack. Soft brown sugar with a mild molasses taste, for baking and cooking that wants caramel without the da...

Twix, 25 bars of 50g. Biscuit, caramel, and milk chocolate, the standard bar. Mars. The case is for the place that sells a bar or puts one on a tra...

Palm sugar, a 500g block. XO packs the solid sugar tapped from palm sap, with a caramel, smoky, slightly maple note. Thai, Vietnamese, and other So...

Orange blossom water, 750ml. Floral, a little bitter, the Levantine drop in mahalabia and in baklava. Turkish coffee and Arabic coffee take a hint....

Rose water, 750ml. A few drops, not a pour. Gulab jamun, kheer, kunafa and baklava take it. A Persian syrup or a sherbet takes it. A cocktail, a mo...