About Golden Barrel

Honoring family traditions since 1934, Golden Barrel brings the taste of Lancaster County, PA right to your table. Golden Barrel Baking Products has grown from its humble origins of packed table syrups for shoofly pies, to numerous products that have become a staple for cooking and baking recipes, breakfast traditions, and even soap making. Our time honored products include shoofly pie and cake mix, molasses, pancake syrups and coconut oil among others. Check out our products or visit our blog for unique recipes made with some of our quality ingredients.

Look for our products in local stores or order through one of our online distributors to start your own family baking traditions. Experience the Sweet Taste of Tradition with Golden Barrel Baking Products!

Our Company

Zook Ag Nutritional Products

The Zook Ag Nutritional Products (previously called Zook Molasses Company) started back in 1934 by M. Simon Zook filling a need for farmers to feed their livestock with quality molasses. Ever since, Zook Ag has been serving the agricultural industry with conventional and organic liquid and dried feeding molasses. This is a great source for energy, dry matter and improved digestibility. The Zook Molasses company also provides conventional and organic Soy oil as well as other non-GMO products. They also are a distributor for flavoring ingredients, lick tubs, and deer blocks.

Please contact Zook Ag at (800) 327-4406. We would be happy to help! Visit www.zookag.com.

Golden Barrel Honey Brook

Located in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania, Golden Barrel Honey Brook (Previously called Good Food, Inc.) was founded in 1980 by M. Simon Zook’s daughter and son-in-law Sally and Larry Martin. Already seasoned business entrepreneurs in food service distribution, they sought to expand the family business, Zook Molasses Company.

As the company grew, so did the scope of cooking and baking supplies sold. The company’s experience with molasses blending led to almost 200 different liquid blends of various liquid sweeteners and syrups packed in retail, food service and bulk tanker loads.

Along with Mrs. Schlorer’s, the famous Golden Barrel line includes kosher baking ingredients like baking mixes, syrups, molasses, and cooking oils as found on this website. Packaging ranges from retail sizes up to bulk size quantities. Golden Barrel Honey Brook offers liquid and dry blending, warehousing, private labeling and transportation. Contact number for Golden Barrel is (800) 327-4406.

Golden Barrel Leola

Golden Barrel Leola (previously called L&S Sweeteners), a division of M. Simon Zook Company, was started in 1985 to serve the expanding needs of the sweeteners market and it’s sister company, Golden Barrel Honey Brook. Since then, Golden Barrel Leola has become one of the Northeast’s largest processing facilities of bulk sweeteners. Well-equipped, state of the art rail service has made us a terminal hub to the world’s best and largest refining companies. As a result we offer very competitive pricing on all of your bulk sweetener needs…or if you prefer, we can offer trans-loading services for national, refiner-direct accounts. Corn syrups of most grades, sugar-dry and liquefied, invert sugars, dextrose, molasses, and much more are delivered by rail into our facility and trucked to yours. Whether your business is baking, confections, snack foods, beverage or pharmaceutical-scientific…whatever the needs… our goal is to supply quality products & services at competitive prices.