1. Emergency Substitutions
Recipe 911
Emergency Substitutions

2. Recipes contain non-essential and essential ingredients.
Non-essential ingredients are those that can be changed without changing the general appearance or texture, i.e.
M&M’s in place of peanuts in cookies
Black beans in place of pinto beans in chili

3. Essential ingredients are those that have a specific function in a recipe.
Ingredients are mostly found in baked goods
Work like a chemical formula
Include flour, salt, sugar, fat, & leavening agents.
If changes are made to these, it will affect appearance, taste, or texture.

4. So, what happens if you forgot (shame, shame) to check your pantry to make sure you had needed ingredients before you started to cook and you are in the middle of the process and discover you don’t have something you need.
What would you do?

5. You really want to make a cake that calls for buttermilk, have everything you need for the recipe but the buttermilk, but you are broke!
What would you do?

6. You have learned how to make omelets in your Foods class, want to make one for your grandmother, but she has high cholesterol and you know that egg yolks are high in cholesterol.
What can you do?

7. You find a recipe that looks really interesting but it calls for peanuts. You are allergic to peanuts.
What can you do?

8. It is often necessary to make substitutions when cooking
It is often necessary to make substitutions when cooking. Reasons include
Unavailable ingredients
Cost of ingredients
Nutritional value
Creativity

9. There are some ingredients that can be substituted without any significant change to the product.
Write the title, “Emergency Substitutions” in your notebook. Divide the page into two columns.

10. Emergency Substitutions
1 c. sour cream 1 c. plain yogurt
1 c. buttermilk 1 T vinegar or lemon juice plus enough milk to = 1 cup
1 Large egg 2 egg whites
1 c. corn syrup 1 ¼ c. sugar + ¼ c. liquid used in recipe

11. Emergency Substitutions (cont.)
1 oz baking chocolate 3 T cocoa + 1 T butter
1 2/3rd oz semi-sweet 1 oz baking chocolate chocolate t sugar OR oz semisweet chocolate chips
1 c. cake flour 7/8 c. all-purpose flour (3/4 c. + 2 T)
1 c. self-rising flour 1 c. all-purpose flour t. baking powder & ½ t. salt

12. Emergency Substitutions (cont.)
1 T cornstarch 2 T all-purpose flour
1 t. dry mustard 1 T prepared mustard
1 clove garlic 1/8th t garlic powder
1 T chopped fresh herbs 1 t chopped dried herbs

13. Now You Do It!