If you've ever lived 60 miles from the nearest grocery store and you get to the grocery store only once a month, you will at some point be cooking and find you don't have one of the necessary ingredients for your recipe. Thank goodness for friendly community of people living in a small mining town and their combined knowledge of cooking substitutions ( and by occassionally borrowing an ingredient) no one every had to waste a meal because of a missing ingredient.
A list of food substitutes and cooking substitutes that might be useful the next time you are baking or cooking and find you don't have one of the ingredients for the recipe.
Grateful thanks to the long ago Eagle Mountain, California Kaiser Steel Mining Company community for many of the substitutions listed below.
| Need | Substitute | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allspice: 1 teaspoon | 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves |
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| Baking Powder: 1 teaspoon | 1/3 teaspoon
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar |
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| Bread Crumbs: 1 cup | 1 cup of cracker crumbs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broth, beef or chicken: 1 cup | 1 bouillon cube in 1 cup boiling water | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Butter: 1 cup | Almost 1 cup of oil 1/2 teaspoon of oil |
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| Buttermilk: 1 cup | 1 tablespoon of vinegar to 1 cup of milk
or 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to one cup of milk or 1 3/4 teaspoons of cream of tartar to one cup of milk |
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| Catsup: 1 cup | 1 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup sugar 2 tablespoons vinegar |
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| Cornstarch for thickening: 1 tablespoon | 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cream, Half and Half: 1 cup | 1 cup milk
1 tablespoon melted butter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cream of Tartar: 1/2 teaspoon | 1 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
or 1 1/2 teaspoon vinegar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eggs | 1 tablespoon cornstarch
3 tablespoons water for each egg or 3 tablespoons mayonnaise for each egg or 1/2 ripe mashed banana 1/4 teaspoon baking powder for each egg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lemon Juice: 1 teaspoon | 1/4 teaspoon cider vinegar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Macaroni: 4 cups uncooked | 2 cups spaghetti uncooked
or 4 cups noodles uncooked | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Onion Soup Mix | 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 cup instant minced onion 2 tablespoons bouillon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pumpkin Pie Spice | 4 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons ginger 1 teaspoon allspice 1 teaspoon nutmeg or 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon mace 1 teaspoon cloves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sour Cream: 1 cup | 1 cup yogurt, plain
1/4 cup instant minced onion 2 tablespoons bouillon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sugar: 1 cup | 1 cup brown sugar, packed
or 2 cups sifted confectioners sugar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tomato Sauce: 2 cups | 3/4 cup tomato paste
1 cup water | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Molasses: 1 cup | 1 cup honey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Molasses: 1 cup | 1 cup honey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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