what foods and ingridients should a good cook (chef) keep on hand?
Essential Pantry Items
Allspice
Almond extract
Aluminum foil
Baking powder
Baking soda
Beef stock
Beans
Chicken stock
Chocolate (semi-sweet chips, unsweetened baking
chocolate, cocoa powder)
Cinnamon
Coconut (shredded)
Cornstarch
Cornmeal (yellow and white)
Cream of tartar
Crisco Cooking Spray (regular and butter flavored)
Crisco Oil
Crisco Shortening
Crisco Shortening Sticks
Flour
Gelatin (unflavored)
Ground ginger
Honey
Peanut butter
Maple syrup
Noodles/pasta
Nutmeg
Nuts (walnuts, pecans, and almonds)
Paper towels
Pineapple (canned)
Plastic wrap
Quick oats
Raisins
Rice
Salt
Jams (strawberry and apricot)
Spaghetti sauce/marinara sauce
Spices
Sugar (granulated and confectioners’)
Syrup (maple)
Vanilla extract
Wax paper
Wooden toothpicks
Yeast (active dry)
Essential Ingredients for Desserts
Sugar
Brown Sugar – in a pinch, you can use regular sugar + molassas
Confectionary Sugar for the icings
Milk
Eggs
Flour
Baking Soda – if you’re out, don’t forget that you usually have a box in the refrigerator
Vanilla – you can substitute all sorts of things for this if you need to, like orange or lemon juice, almond extract, and so forth
Butter or margarine
Applesauce – if you’re out of sugar, try this instead
Brown sugar (light and dark)
*If you’re out of baking powder, mix 1/2 baking soda and 1/2 cream of tartar.
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