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Help! I Don't Have Any... Cooking Alternatives To Help In A Bind
For many cooks, there are occassions when we don’t have the exact ingredients in the cupboard to cook our desired food. However, don’t despair, you probably have a suitable substitution on hand, saving the cook a drive to the store. Here are some hints.
Milk
A lot of require milk. If you realize yourself out of milk or short on the amount necessary to prepare a specific recipe, make sure you have a supply of evaporated milk on hand. Evaporated milk or reconstituted milk can be kept for a long time and once mixed with water and sometimes a bit of butter, can easily taste as fresh and delicious as regular milk.
Baking Powder
If you don’t have baking powder available, mix baking soda and a drop of buttermilk. For a tablespoon of double acting baking powder, substitute 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda and a 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
Self Rising Flour
Self rising flour is simple to create at home, just combine one cup of all purpose flour with 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
Butter Milk
Out of butter milk? You can quickly make your own. You can substitute 1 cup of butter milk with 1 cup whole
milk and a tablespoon of vinegar. You can also substitute 1 cup of butter milk with 2/3 cup of plain yogurt and 1/3 cup whole milk.
Garlic
Need garlic, but don't have any? Use garlic powder instead. About 1 clove of garlic equals 1/8 of a teaspoon of garlic powder.
Honey
You can simply replace honey with sugar and water. 1 cup of honey is equal to about 1 and 1/4 cup of sugar and a 1/4 cup of water.
Substituting Sugar
If you are lacking sugar on hand or would like to replace it because of health concerns, here are some tricks to replace sugar:
Sugar can be replaced with maple syrup, corn syrup, brown sugar, honey, stevia, and molasses. Although, some will call for sugar or a granular sweetener and not syrup due to baking and texture requirements.
If you are hoping to decrease the amount of sugar you eat because of health concerns, look to the many sweeteners, sometimes called sugar substitutes on the market. They include, Sweet and Low, Splenda, Equal, and plant derived Stevia.
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