Food & Wine Substitutes
Ever run out of an ingredient right in the middle of cooking? Then you know how frustrating this will be. But all needn't be lost with the help of our handy food and wine substitutes.
 | Food Substitutes |  |
| If you don't have | Use |
| | Self-raising flour | 5ml baking powder for every 250ml cake flour |
| | Buttermilk | natural yoghurt or milk + 12ml lemon juice or vinegar |
| | Baking powder | ½ quantity each cream of tartar + bicarbonate of soda |
| | Castor sugar | finely ground white sugar |
| | Cornflour | double quantity of cake of bread flour |
| | Creme fraiche | plain yoghurt |
| | Egg | 2 egg yolks + 15ml water |
| | All spice | 5ml ground cinnamon + pinch each of ginger, clove |
| | Honey | 315ml sugar + 65ml liquid |
| | Pecan nuts | walnuts |
| | Pine kernels | sunflour seeds |
| | Sour cream | plain yoghurt or cream + 5ml lemon juice or 2ml wine vinegar |
| | Tomato puree | ¼ quantity tomato paste or 1½ quantity fresh tomatoes, skinned, seeded and cooked till soft |
| | Whole-wheat flour | brown bread flour + rolled/crushed wheat to taste |
| | Herbs, 1 tbsp fresh | 5ml dried herbs |
| | Lemon juice, 1 tsp | 2.5 ml vinegar |
| | Mustard, 1 tsp dry | 12ml prepared mustard |
| | Orange, 1 medium | 125ml cup juice |
| | Tomato, one can | 500ml chopped fresh tomato |
| | Yoghurt, plain | buttermilk; sour cream or cottage cheese + 5ml lemon juice |
| | Bread crumbs | cracker crumbs |
| | Carrots | parsnips or baby white turnips |
| | Tomato juice | 190ml tomato paste + 250ml water |
| | Curry powder | Tumeric +ground cardamom. ginger and cumin | |
