Pantry Basics
- All purpose Flour - Gold Medal is a good brand to bake with.
- Bread Flour - has high glutten and makes good bread dough
- Cake Flour - has low glutten and makes light cake
Sugar
- White
- Brown – used more for baking
- Dark Brown – use only when called for in baking
- Confectioners or 10X – used for making icings or to sweeten fruit like
strawberries
Oil
- Vegetable or Canola Oil - Used for cooking, frying, deep frying, vinaigrettes
- Olive Oil - Light Olive oil has a mild taste compared to Extra Virgin Olive oil.
Use light olive oil is salad dressings, Extra Virgin to saute. Used for sautéing,
frying, vinaigrettes
Vinegar
- Red Wine – used for vinaigrettes
- Balsamic – used for vinaigrettes
- White – cleaning, Easter egg dyes
- Apple Cider – used in dressing like coleslaw
