It's time to stock up for holiday baking/cooking/giftmaking what/where do you get ur supplies?

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mariadnoca

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All this chocolate talk has me wondering...

What's on your supply list and where do you tend to get them? For example I realized I should get some new food coloring gels and it's been so long I don't even recall where I got them...do you have a good source? If I hadn't made the number cookies I wouldn't have realized I need some more -- time to inventory everything!

Think I want some food safe felt pens to add to my list too - that's a trek to a cake/bakery supplier near SF (yuk). I'm good on sugar, though still need to find some dark brown...somewhere (C&H never responded), flour so far is KA from Walmart, was so looking forward to being able to get some at Costco, but not sold on the Conagra brand and it seems they no longer carry? Central Milling. Butter & eggs = Costco. I'm set with chocolate.

Need good southern pecans -- anyone have a favorite source?

 
Holiday Baking Sources

I use Sunnyland Farms in Albany GA. for pecans. They have a website(www.sunnylandfarms.com) and I use Barry Farm in Wapakoneta,Oh for my dried fruit(www.barryfarm.com). The last couple years the price of dried /candied fruit has really skyrocketed around here so Barry farm is quite reasonably. I haven't checked their prices this year yet. As far as Sunnyland Farms, my mother and I have bought from them for years. I usually just get the small broken pecans and walnuts for baking.

 
Glac

That stuff is awful.

I use pounds of glacé cherries, pineapple, mixed peel, angelica, peaches, etc. in my Christmas baking. Luckily I have a local store that sells it in bulk. They have huge bins of the fruits nestled in the syrup to keep them fresh. They dish out what I want, weigh it, and I'm on my way. Beautiful whole cherries for $5/lb.

Unfortunately, it's a local store. But they buy it from a supplier, so look around for little specialty stores if you need glacé fruit and don't want to make it yourself. I've seen places on the Web that offer it, including the link to a local Ohio company (that I haven't used) that's offering their own product.

http://www.barryfarm.com/candied_fruit.htm

 
which recipes call for candied angelica? (more)

I am growing it and plan on candying my own and vaguely remember British fruticakes calling for it but can't find the recipes

 
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