Fresh market, wegmans are good bets. I will often search on Instacart for an ingredient that isn’t at my local store and see who has it. Then I just go to the store myself.
Using Instacart it looks like wegmans and giant have fresh gooseberries.
Wegmans app shows gooseberry preserves but not fresh gooseberries. I don’t think there are any Giants in Richmond. OP, you might ask at customer service at your local supermarket to see if they can special order something for you.
I’ve seen gooseberries at Trader Joe’s and Fresh Market. If you can’t find caster sugar, a good substitute is putting your granulated sugar in the blender for 30 seconds.
Genuinely not trying to be a dick, but Google is probably going to be your best bet for finding specific items or passable substitutes.
Publix has a few items like custard powder, HP Sauce and a few things in their British Food section. Wegmans has caster sugar and a handful of items. You can order things online, too.
If you need golden syrup, I think Publix carries it in the international aisle, but corn syrup should be a fine substitute if you've already got it on hand.
Look for superfine sugar here in the USA. Same as caster sugar. Dominos makes it, so should be fairly easy to come by at one of the regular grocery stores. It can be called "baker's sugar", or "quick dissolve sugar". However, it is definitely not confectioner's or powdered sugar! It's just an utrafine granulated sugar.
Caster sugar is the same as super fine sugar in the US and is labeled that way.
World market has some British baking ingredients, it used to be the only place I could find golden syrup.
Fresh market, wegmans are good bets. I will often search on Instacart for an ingredient that isn’t at my local store and see who has it. Then I just go to the store myself.
Using Instacart it looks like wegmans and giant have fresh gooseberries.
This is clever, thanks for the tip.
I have found Instacart handy for this as well. Search for a specific item to see who has it near me
Wegmans app shows gooseberry preserves but not fresh gooseberries. I don’t think there are any Giants in Richmond. OP, you might ask at customer service at your local supermarket to see if they can special order something for you.
You’re right re: giant. Weird that it’s on Instacart. Closest is Fredericksburg.
I’ve seen gooseberries at Trader Joe’s and Fresh Market. If you can’t find caster sugar, a good substitute is putting your granulated sugar in the blender for 30 seconds.
Genuinely not trying to be a dick, but Google is probably going to be your best bet for finding specific items or passable substitutes.
You must be new here. 😎 Nobody around here uses Google any more. They just toss it out on reddit and let the community do their work for them. 🤯
i wanted to hear where people actually got theirs from as all i found online were canned gooseberries and $40 caster sugar shipped from walmart 🥴
Europa market has had some things I wanted, or world market, fresh market, or whole foods
Try looking for alternative names, a lot of UK products are just known by different things here. Like gooseberries are more commonly called currants
Publix has a few items like custard powder, HP Sauce and a few things in their British Food section. Wegmans has caster sugar and a handful of items. You can order things online, too.
If you need golden syrup, I think Publix carries it in the international aisle, but corn syrup should be a fine substitute if you've already got it on hand.
Wegmans has caster sugar in their international aisle
New Grand Mart
You can save money and just buy regular sugar and pulse it in the blender a few times to grind it down
Look for superfine sugar here in the USA. Same as caster sugar. Dominos makes it, so should be fairly easy to come by at one of the regular grocery stores. It can be called "baker's sugar", or "quick dissolve sugar". However, it is definitely not confectioner's or powdered sugar! It's just an utrafine granulated sugar.
If you measure by weight instead of volume, any ingredient can be a "British baking" ingredient.
Oh yeah and if you don't have a convection oven you can't trust their baking times or temperatures.
Also there's a reason gooseberries aren't common here.
https://legalclarity.org/are-gooseberries-illegal-a-review-of-current-state-laws/
Dunning-Kruger is doing heavy lifting in this thread.
We are doing a lot of bake-off-inspired cooking too! If you have a blender you can make Caster sugar from cane sugar in seconds.
Pretty sure I've had gooseberies from whole foods and wegmans before.
I order mine off the internet.