A Love Affair With Southern Cooking_ Recipes and Recollections - Jean Anderson [255]
fudgeman.com. The world’s only saltwater fudge: smooth, creamy, addictive.
gethsemanifarms.org. Kentucky bourbon fruitcake and fudges (chocolate bourbon and butter-walnut bourbon).
hanescookies.com. Making gingery, super-thin Moravian cookies for more than 75 years, the Hanes family still hand-rolls, hand-cuts, and hand-packs each and every one.
mscheesestraws.com. Cheese straws sweet and savory, also Mississippi Mud Puppies® (oatmeal-pecan cookies chock-full of chocolate chips).
oldsalem.org. Paper-thin Moravian cookies (ginger, sugar, lemon, black walnut) plus Winkler Bakery mixes for Moravian Love Feast buns, sugar cake, gingerbread, and sweet potato muffins. Located on Old Salem’s Main Street, the 200-year-old Winkler Bakery still bakes its breads and cookies in wood-fired brick ovens.
sosupreme.com. Long on nuts and short on candied fruits, these Scott family fruitcakes win scores of “best I ever ates” and are shipped all over the world. Also, homemade peanut brittle, butter pecan crunch, chocolate-covered pecans, and more.
sunnylandfarms.com. Nut barks, brittles, clusters, and pralines.
thebestcake.com. Now available by mail, the perfect pound cake made with pure butter, eggs, sugar, and flour. This cake won “best in show” at the North Carolina State Fair.
Canning and Pickling Supplies
bakerscatalogue.com. A source for the powdered ascorbic acid and citric acid (sour salt) used to keep apples, peaches, pears, and other foods from darkening when canned or frozen.
canningpantry.com. Headquarters for pressure canners, water-bath canners, meat grinders, juicers, dehydrators, and a variety of other food conservation essentials.
goodmans.net. A large inventory of canning equipment and accessories.
homecanningsupply.com. Everything for the home canner: apple peelers, bean slicers, jelly jars, pickling crocks, pressure canners, and steam canners.
polsteins.com. Jars large and small, jar lifters, wide-mouth canning funnels, liquid and powdered pectin, even electric tomato squeezers.
mrswages.com. Pickling lime, pickling salt, and an anti-browning agent plus a variety of pectins and pickling mixes.
Cheeses
bedfordcheese.com. Aged, additive-free Cheddars.
gethsemanifarms.org. Making cheese since the 1940s, these Kentucky monks offer three different Trappist cheeses: mild, aged, and hickory-smoked.
Coffees
martinezfinecoffees.com. Outstanding estate coffees from Central and South America, Kenya, Hawaii, Jamaica (where the Martinez family has roots), and elsewhere. Personally selected beans, “the pick of the crop” roasted on the day of purchase or shipment.
Condiments, Sauces, and Seasonings
thencstore.com. Bone Suckin’ barbecue sauces hot and mild (voted “America’s best” by Food & Wine magazine) plus Bone Suckin’ mustard, salsa, rib rub, and hot pepper sauce.
tonychachere.com. Gumbo filé, Cajun and Creole seasoning blends, marinades, gravy and batter mixes.
Fish and Shellfish
Blue crabs:
ilovecrabs.com. Hard-and soft-shell blue crabs, also jumbo Gulf Coast shrimp.
lintonsseafood.com. One-of-a-kind Maryland blue crabs from Crisfield on Chesapeake Bay. Also soft-shells in season, lump crabmeat, crab balls, crab soups, and chowders. A good source, too, for Chesapeake oysters and clams.
virginiatraditions.com. Jumbo soft-shell crabs.
Stone crabs:
Stone crabs are prized for their large claws and the sweet, firm-but-tender meat they contain. The season for fresh stone crabs? Mid-October through mid-May.
beststonecrabs.com. Colossal stone crab claws packed and shipped.
freshchoiceseafood.com. Stone crab claws in four sizes: medium, large, jumbo, and colossal.
freshfloridastonecrab.com. Cooked stone crab claws as well as fresh in a variety of sizes.
ozonacrabco.com. A group of independent fishermen who concentrate on the Gulf’s prize catch: stone crabs. Founded nearly 100 years ago, the company is based near Tarpon Springs where, it’s said, stone crab claws are the biggest and best.
twinmarketplace.com.