Ingredient Glossary
- allspice
- ground allspice
- apple cider vinegar
- the juice of apples, fermented then turned into vinegar
- bacon
- smoked cured pork belly
- baking powder
- acid/bicarbonate/buffer mixture
- baking soda
- sodium bicarbonate
- brown sugar
- light brown cane sugar (3.5% molasses)
- butter
- unsalted sweet cream butter (80% milkfat)
- buttermilk
- pasteurized homogenized whole-fat cultured buttermilk
- chocolate chips
- semisweet (>35% chocolate liquor) chocolate chips
- cinnamon
- ground Saigon cinnamon
- cocoa
- Dutch-process (alkali-treated) cocoa powder
- cornstarch
- starch made from endosperm of corn
- cream of tartar
- potassium bitartrate
- egg
- large egg (24 oz per dozen, ~56.7 grams per egg)
- egg white
- large egg yolk (about 70% of the egg, ~40 grams)
- egg yolk
- large egg yolk (about 30% of the egg, ~17 grams)
- flour
- unbleached all-purpose wheat flour (11.7% protein)
- ginger
- ground ginger
- lemon juice
- juice of a lemon
- molasses
- unsulfured blackstrap molasses
- nutmeg
- ground nutmeg
- oats
- old-fashioned rolled oats
- olive oil
- extra-virgin olive oil
- pear
- any variety of pear
- Pecorino Romano
- hard Italian cheese made from sheep's milk
- pectin
- powdered pectin/dextrose/citric acid mixture
- salt
- kosher salt, Diamond Crystal brand
- shortening
- hydrogenated soybean/palm oil
- sugar
- extra fine white granulated cane sugar (sucrose)
- vanilla bean extractives in water and ethanol (>35%)
- vanilla flavoring
- artificial vanilla (vanillin)
- water
- tap water