Ingredient Substitutions Mega-List

[Fat Guy]

Found this interesting list from the Land O' Lakes people:

http://www.landolakes.com/mealideas/Substitutions.cfm

Something like 50 ingredients and recommended substitutes.

Do you think this will work?

"Cream (40% fat) (Whipping Cream)

1/3 cup butter plus 3/4 cup milk can be substituted for 1 cup cream (in baking and cooking)."

[JAZ]

Found this interesting list from the Land O' Lakes people:

http://www.landolakes.com/mealideas/Substitutions.cfm

Something like 50 ingredients and recommended substitutes.

Do you think this will work?

"Cream (40% fat) (Whipping Cream)

1/3 cup butter plus 3/4 cup milk can be substituted for 1 cup cream (in baking and cooking)."

Seems to me that the texture might be affected.

In general, some of the substitutions sound better than others. In particular, I'd really hate to taste a dish in which apple juice was substituted for wine.

[aliwaks]

I made vagan brownies fro one of my servers birthday a while ago.

took the recipe from the back of unsweetened chocolate (Germans i think) substituted Crisco for butter (ok not exactly healthy but vegan) & a ripe banana for eggs & they came out really good I mean they were vegan brownies but they were rich & chocolatey & moist!

for an icing & blened peanut butter w. silken tofu & 10x sugar

[alacarte]

The list sounds like something from the back of a WWII pamphlet on rationing.

[chantrelle]

Vanilla Extract

Imitation vanilla flavoring can be substituted for vanilla extract. Other flavorings, such as almond, peppermint, rum or lemon may be substituted for vanilla extract (flavor differences will occur.)

The fact that they'd have to point out that "flavor differences will occur" if you substitute peppermint for vanilla....wow...that's just...wow.

[bloviatrix]

If anyone is interesting here's another site featuring ingredient substitutions.

The Cook's Thesaurus

[Suzanne F]

What I found most interesting on the LoL site was that for all the spice substitutions, they did NOT say "flavor differences will occur."

[Fat Guy]

It's always amusing when someone (invariably motivated by dietary concerns) looks at a recipe, substitutes half the ingredients, and then passes judgment on the quality of the recipe.