Questions about possible substitutions for an ingredient. Please indicate the reason for substitution.
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What is ground beef?
I keep hearing about Ground Beef, but I'm from Australia and I've never actually seen it before.
Is it the same thing as Minced Beef? Or different? Is Minced beef an acceptible substitute if they're ...
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Is it possible to subsititute nutella for peanut butter?
Beyond the obvious differences in flavor, do these two tend to be interchangable? The consistencies and composition seem close enough to me to make an acceptable substitute, but is it likely to give ...
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Can an American substitute for garam masala be made?
I love Indian food and have been experimenting with curry recipes, and many of them ask for 'garam masala'. I know it's a spice mix but I can't find it for sale anywhere around me. I've also read ...
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Lard(or other) as a subsitute for butter in desserts for someone with a dairy allergy?
My wife is currently unable to consume any dairy as our breast-fed baby has a milk protein allergy. When reading many dessert recipes, many of them call for butter. For example:
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What can I use as an alternative sweetener for smoothies?
I make fruit smoothies often, and started off adding sugar. I'm looking for a more "natural" sweetener though. I know I can use honey, but it adds a distinct taste that I'd like to avoid. I've tried ...
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How can I substitute English Toffee in cookies?
I found a cookie recipe which requires "English Toffee bars". I have never seen them around here, and don't know what they are.
What are these bars? Is there any substitution I can use? How close ...
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Can I substitute Ener-G Egg Replacer with Orgran No Egg?
I'm interested in hearing any success (or woeful failure) stories on the behavioural differences between these two products. I've only found Orgran No Egg available for sale in my city, so my fingers ...
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Using spaghetti squash for 'pasta'
I've recently gotten into making primal/paleo cooking, i.e. (no grains,legumes,processed foods) and have been meaning to try spaghetti w/meat sauce with spaghetti squash noodles instead of regular ...
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What can I use to replace the tomato juice in gazpacho?
I'm trying to find cold alternatives to hot soup. A friend pointed me to gazpacho. I tried that, and we really liked it.
However, I will be cooking for someone who does not eat cooked tomatoes ...
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Can I substitute duck breast for leg?
I managed to pick up a couple of duck breasts that were on offer. I had a nice meal recently that included duck breast served on duck hash.
The recipe for this meal involves jointing a whole duck, ...
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Substitute for lemon grass in curry dish
I have a meal planned in a few days and it calls for lemon grass. Problem is I've been to the store a couple of times and they don't have it.
(the store is a block away and I don't feel like ...
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Dry milk in bread: purpose, and substitutions
I've been looking for a good 100% whole grain bread recipe that I like, and came across one that looks promising in the book Home Grown Whole Grains (pp. 152):
1 package active dry yeast
1 ...
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Yeast Beginner: Cinnamon Swirl Bread? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to convert a recipe calling for active dry yeast into rapid rise yeast?
So, this is the recipe I'm looking at wanting to make:
Cinnamon Swirl Loaf
7 to 7 1/2 ...
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Cooking Chemistry: lemon juice/soymilk buttermilk substitute turning bitter and 'rising'
I made a soup recipe the other night (mainly potato, spinach, and veggie broth) that called for buttermilk. I substituted soymilk and lemon juice, reading online that that was a good substitution for ...
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When can artificial vanilla extract be used in place of real vanilla extract?
There's another question about the difference between artificial and real vanilla extract, saying people can tell the difference, but perhaps not in baked goods. The labeling can also be confusing.
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What is a good pine nut substitute for pesto?
I'm allergic to pine nuts, is there another nut I can use to make pesto?
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Is it possible to create this low calorie high fiber brownies?
I have been looking at some of the low calorie brownie options online and have not found one I can sink my teeth into, without worrying about my hips. So I decided to think up a whole new recipe of my ...
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How to incorporate alcohol (rum) into a cake recipe?
How can I incorporate alcohol (rum, in this case) into an existing cake recipe (pumpkin cake, for example)? Can I simply replace the water with rum?
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What is ground red pepper?
I have the 75th anniversary edition of Joy of Cooking. I've now come across two recipes that call for "ground red pepper" (enchiladas and a dry rub). I've never heard of ground red pepper before and ...
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Can I replace honey with maple syrup in recipes that require honey?
There are many recipes (or recipe variants) that require honey as ingredient.
Barbecue Spareribs
Honey Lamb Chops
Honey Raisin Choc Drops
Honey Shortbread Biscuits
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Krispie ...
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Is ginger a good substitute for galangal in Thai green curry?
Is fresh ginger a good substitute for galangal in a Thai Green curry? (I cannot get fresh galangal here anywhere)
Would I use less or more ginger than galangal quantity?
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Are there any other gums that work in gluten-free baking besides xanthan and guar?
I'm curious, are any other substances that could substitute for guar gum or xanthan gum in gluten-free baking? Xanthan isn't an option because of allergies, and while guar gum seems to work OK for ...
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Substitute rabbit in chicken recipes?
After reading through the cookbook thread from front to back, I bought a couple of the recommended works, including How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. I went straight to the index to look up what ...
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What vegetarian substitute for prosciutto could I use in Carbonara?
Instead of prosciutto, I used capers to try and maintain the salty aspect. It worked ok, but something about the capers and cheese didn't seem right. Any other suggestions?
Also, to round out the ...
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Best substitute for Gin
There are a huge number of cocktail recipes that, being allergic to juniper, I've never been able to try because they contain gin. I know that juniper is a fairly distinctive flavor and gin won't be ...
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Turkey bacon a good stand-in for bacon?
On a kosher diet, I can't eat bacon. Someone who knows this recommended turkey bacon as a close substitute. Is it really? That is, does turkey bacon truly have the taste and texture of bacon? Is there ...
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chestnut puree quantity
My recipe called for 250g of chestnuts, blended with 125ml of cream and 125ml of milk that you then blended together to make a puree. When i went to the supermarket I discovered they had tinned ...
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Salmon patties with cream cheese?
So, I have this jarred salmon here, caught up in Montana in 2010 I believe, cooked (not sure how) and sealed in a mason jar since. I opened the jar yesterday and tried a bit of the salmon on saltines. ...
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Can I replace pine nuts with other nuts in a pesto sauce recipe? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a good pine nut substitute for pesto?
Pine nuts are very expensive here. I'm wondering if I can substitute any of the following:
Walnuts
Sunflower seeds
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Brownies without egg
My son has a severe egg allergy. We've tried a couple of egg-less brownie recipes but they always end up terrible. I've tried making a batch with an egg replacement and one without. In both cases, the ...
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What can I use instead of annatto?
Annatto is a common spice in Mexican cookery, especially in the Yucatan. However, like many Mexican ingredients, it's hard to find in Europe. What can I use as a substitute to give the same colour and ...
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How to make celery root dish without parmesan?
I've used a recipe before (can't find it anymore, sorry) where I steamed sticks of celery root. The ingredients I remember are garlic (whole cloves steamed together with the celery), probably a small ...
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How to substitute eggs in homemade pasta?
I am looking to make pasta at home, but all the classical pasta dough recipes I know of are egg-based. While I have no problem with eating meat and animal products from time to time, I would like to ...
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Can you substitute butter in a box cake recipe that calls for oil? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Conversion rule: how to switch oil and butter?
Most box cake mixes call for adding oil and water. What would be the effect of using butter instead of oil, and what ratio ...
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Instant espresso powder substitutions?
Many recipes for chocolate baked goods call for instant espresso powder. I rarely bake, but I always have coffee in the house. What might I use as a rule of thumb for substituting for instant espresso ...
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What could I substitute for coffee in an Opéra cake
I would like to bake an Opéra cake for someone who doesn't really appreciate the taste of coffee. Since coffee and chocolate are the two main elements, I am wondering: what flavour could I substitute ...
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Bacon substitution
I do a great simple dish that involves bacon so I'm interested whether there is a vegetarian substitute for bacon. It would be quite useful having one since I use it all the time.
Here's the recipe:
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What flavor (besides chocolate) goes well with hazelnut?
I have a family recipe for a to-die-for hazelnut torte with chocolate frosting. I want to bake it for an occasion coming up, but there will be at least two, possibly three people there who are ...
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What is a substitute for red or white wine in a recipe?
If someone cannot or will not use wine for cooking, what would be a good substitute?
Question applies to both red and white wine.
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How to substitute white wine? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a substitute for red or white wine in a recipe?
Im not a cook so I'm afraid to not go "exactly" by the recipe ... The recipe is for a baked Penne with Italian ...
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Is white vinegar the same as White Wine vinegar?
Is white vinegar, aka the stuff just labelled as "vinegar" in the US and which I use for cleaning my kettle, the same as "White wine vinegar", which I have purchased on accident a time or two? If not, ...
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How can I substitute Tender Quick® for pink salt + kosher salt?
I have a recipe for pastrami that calls for 1 T of pink salt + 3/4 cup of kosher salt. I don't have access to pink salt or saltpeter, but I do have Morton® Tender Quick®. I imagine that I can use the ...
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Substitute for egg yolk in ice-cream (Egg Allergy)
I have a few questions regarding egg yolk in ice-cream.
I would love to try making homemde ice-cream but a lot of recipes I see have egg yolk. Is there a substitute that I could use or is it ...
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Should flax seeds be crushed to be a good egg substitute?
When I'm looking up egg substitutes, one of the easiest (for me) is making a slurry of flax seeds and water. However, I noticed there is a difference between using the flax seeds whole and breaking ...
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Can coconut cream be transformed into coconut milk, or vice versa?
Can coconut cream be transformed into coconut milk, or the other way around? For example, will adding water or cow milk to coconut cream make a usable coconut milk? Or by reducing coconut milk, can I ...
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Can I substitute olive oil for butter/shortening in pie crust?
I was making a pie the other day -- a mock apple pie*, to be exact, which is unusual enough. But I came up short on butter and don't keep any shortening stocked in my kitchen. Desperate, I searched ...
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Are there differences when working with light-colored palm sugar versus dark?
Depending where I get my palm sugar from, it's either light brown colored and quite hard (pictured left), or a very dark brown color and much softer (on the right).
Are these different types of ...
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Substituting for Candlenuts in Indonesian Food
Indonesian cuisine relies heavily on candlenuts as a base and thickener for spice pastes which are the foundation of the cuisine. This includes many of the various rendangs and sambals, such as ...
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Substituting maple syrup for maple extract
I found a recipe for maple scones I might try, but it calls for both 1/4 cup maple syrup and 1/4 tsp maple extract, and I only have syrup. I don't have any idea how strongly flavored the extract is ...
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What adjustments are needed to change a pie recipe to a turnover recipe?
I want to make turnovers (e.g. a similar product is popular at McDonalds), instead of pie in a pan. Is this simply a matter of making a dumpling-shape with the dough, and then putting the fruit ...
