American cooking ingredients - what to buy?

dawnybabes

Buffalo wing sauce

sparklymessygirl

You are a fascinating bunch:D - all the stuff you are lusting after!


Sparkly

Wirenth

Reese's peanut butter cups. Not a cooking ingredient, but a fantastic indulgence. :oP

gunsandbanjos

Wirenth wrote: »

Reese's peanut butter cups. Not a cooking ingredient, but a fantastic indulgence. :oP

You can get them here no problem:D

And i agree on Franks Hot Sauce, we use it at work for our buffalo wings, nomnomnom:p

MoaningMyrtle

Corn syrup is used in pecan pie and I can't get it in the Uk. Otherwise just candy. Cinammon Dentyne, almond M & Ms, Peppermint Patties, the list could go on......

ispartacus75

Canned pumpkin. At over £1 per tin in the UK I would love to know what it costs in the USA, but the tins would be a bit heavy.

recovering_spendaholic

Old Bay Seasoning is lovely, as is McCormicks apple pie spice and pumpkin pie spice. You can get quite a few American ingredients in Costco nowadays, but I have never seen those three. I also love jello instant pudding (pistachio flavour particularly) - it is just lovely - I usually get the sugar free variety. I also get the sugar free merringues and marshmallows. I have never tried the pickle relish but it sounds lovely and I will have to get some brought back next time someone goes!

foreign_correspondent

ooh there are some cinnamon sweets, bright red and shaped like liquorice torpedoes called 'hot tomales' - I have seen them for sale on ebay but I have only had them when a friend brought some back from america- they are lovely if you like that sort of thing!

Menolly_2

Sourdough Starter Mix - I bought two sachets of this when we were in Alaska in September - frugal stuff too, 'cos once you've got the starter going, it just gets better and better! With the price of shop bread getting silly, I'm really going to enjoy making my own, even though I really didn't ought to stuff myself with it:rolleyes: (just started Weight Loss Old Style, LOL!)

There ought to be some nice spice mixes in the stores as it is coming up to Thanksgiving and Christmas - we bought some good ones on our last trip for Spiced Hot Cider, Spicy Nut Mixes (you get the idea!). I know you can get the same sort of things here, of course but I think it is fun to try ones from the USA.

sarahs999

I second Old Bay. You can get it here but not as easily as over there.

I make cakes and they have some great decorations/cupcake cases that I would go mad for... fancy bringing me some bacK?