Still more subs..

These are MOST helpful to me:

• 1 can tomatoes (like you buy at the store) use 2 c. FRESH tomatoes chopped

• 1 can beans- use 3/4 dry beans or 2 c. cooked beans

• 1 T. FRESH HERBS-use 1/2 t. DRY HERBS (like the ones suggested in On-Hand Essentials)

• 1 large garlic clove-use 1/4 t. garlic powder

Milk Product Subs

These subs are not things that I always have on hand, but I felt would be useful to know:

• 1 c. fresh milk-use 1/4 c. nonfat dry milk powder + 1 c. water (my Meme always had this dry milk stuff on hand for cooking in case she ran out!)

• 1 c. cream (i.e. heavy cream)- use 3/4 c. milk + 3 T. butter

• 1 c. sour cream-use 1 c. cottage cheese blended w/ 1/4 c.  yogurt or buttermilk

Substitutes

Most times when I was first beginning to cook, I would be out of at least one of the ingredients in a recipe and had to call my mom to see what to use as a substitute. So the next couple of post will be on substitutes to use when cooking. 

FOR BAKING:

to replace

• 1 c. white flour -use 1 c. minus 2 T. of wheat flour and reduce oil by 1 T.(if recipe calls for oil)

• 1 c. sugar- use 3/4 c. honey and decrease liquid by 1/4 c. (or if recipe doesn't call for liquid add 1/4 c. flour and reduce baking temp by 25 degrees)

• 1 c. butter- use 1 c. shortening or 7/8 cup of vegetable oil

• 1 c. milk- use 1 c. yogurt  or  buttermilk  and eliminate baking powder (if called for) and  add 1/2 t. baking soda

• 1 whole egg- use 2 egg whites

• 1 c. powdered sugar- use 1 c. granulated sugar blended with 1 T. cornstarch

Cornstarch would be one of those things my mom considers a staple in the pantry along with baking powder, grits and rice.. So if you want to add those to the list of on-hand essentials you are welcome to..