Baking Ingredients

Yumis Powdered Sugar — the Serbian baker's dust-finish sugar in the household pour. Fine-milled powdered sugar in the Yumis Serbian-pantry format —...

Yumis Baking Soda Sodium Bicarbonate — Serbian-pantry leavening in the single-use packet. Pure sodium bicarbonate in the Yumis Serbian-baking pour ...

Va-Va Poppy Seeds — Macedonian-pantry whole poppy seeds in the diaspora baking pour. Whole blue-grey poppy seeds in the Va-Va Premium Foods Macedon...

Spice-Lutsk Poppy Seeds — Ukrainian-pantry whole poppy seeds for makivnyk and varenyky. Whole blue-grey poppy seeds in the Spice-Lutsk Ukrainian-pa...

Same spring ritual, this time with a shimmer of silver foil pressed onto the shells. This Metma kit adds silver foil for shine to 5 colors of egg d...

Every spring before the holiday, egg dye packets like this one turned the kitchen table into a rainbow the night before. This Metma kit gives 5 col...

Kraš Dorina Baking Dark Chocolate Bar — Zagreb 1911 baking-grade dark chocolate. Dark melting chocolate from the Kraš Zagreb confectionery house's ...

Klas Saraj Prezla Bread Crumbs — the Sarajevo Klas-house bread crumbs for breading and binding. Dried wheat bread crumbs in the Klas Sarajevo-baker...

Grandma kept a bar of Kandit cooking chocolate in the pantry for whenever a torta needed a proper chocolate glaze. Kandit of Osijek makes this baki...

Franck Soda Bikarbona — the Zagreb Franck-house baking soda for Croatian baking. Pure sodium bicarbonate in the Franck Croatian-pantry pour — the Z...

Dr. Oetker Whip It Whipped Cream Stabilizer — the German baker's cream-stiffening packet for the cake top. Whipped-cream stabilizer in the Dr. Oetk...

Dr. Oetker Vanilla Sugar Packets — the Bielefeld 1891 vanilla-packet bundle for batch baking. Multipack format of the Dr. Oetker single-packet vani...

A few drops of vanilla essence like this go into the batter before every birthday cake back home. Dr. Oetker, founded in Germany in 1891 by pharmac...

Dr. Oetker Rum Essence — the Bielefeld 1891 rum-flavoring for Schwarzwald cakes and rum balls. Concentrated rum flavoring in the Dr. Oetker family-...

A few drops of this went into every lemon cake that came out of a German kitchen, the smell hitting the batter before it ever reached the oven. Dr....

Dr. Oetker Natural Vanilla Sugar — the Bielefeld 1891 natural-vanilla packet bundle. Multipack natural vanilla sugar from the Dr. Oetker baking lin...

The smell of lemon essence in the mixing bowl means baking day has started. Dr. Oetker, founded in Germany in 1891 by pharmacist August Oetker, bot...

Dr. Oetker Gelatine Fix Instant Gelatin — the Bielefeld 1891 quick-set gelatin for the cheesecake top. Instant gelatin powder in the Dr. Oetker bak...

Dr. Oetker Butter-Vanilla Aroma — the German baker's butter-vanilla extract for tender crumb. Concentrated butter-vanilla flavoring in the Dr. Oetk...

Dr. Oetker Bitter Almond Flavor — the German baker's bitter-almond extract in single-dose vials. Concentrated bitter-almond flavoring in the Dr. Oe...

A pot of coconut milk simmering into a curry or a milky dessert is a familiar weekend smell in many diaspora kitchens. This is Coconut Taprobane co...

Sunday lunch back home often meant pohovano meso — meat coated in fine crumbs and fried golden — and this is the crumb for that. This is Alpojo Bre...

White Kandit chocolate was the one that went missing from the baking drawer before the cake ever got made — too easy to break off a square and eat ...

Dr. Oetker Vanilla Sugar — the Bielefeld 1891 six-packet bundle for the holiday baking marathon. Multipack of the Dr. Oetker vanilla-sugar packets ...