What’s on the Substitutions poster
A 8-row table: Missing · Use instead.
Per unit of the missing ingredient. Results are close, rarely identical.
- 1 cup buttermilk — 1 cup milk + 1 tbsp lemon juice, 10 min
- 1 egg (binding) — 1 tbsp ground flax + 3 tbsp water
- 1 tsp baking powder — 1/4 tsp bicarb + 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 cup self-raising flour — 1 cup plain + 1.5 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup soured cream — 1 cup plain yoghurt
- 1 cup brown sugar — 1 cup white + 1 tbsp molasses
- 1 cup crème fraîche — 1 cup double cream + 1 tbsp lemon
- Fresh herbs — 1/3 the amount, dried
Bicarbonate of soda needs an acid to work. Baking powder brings its own — they are not interchangeable one-for-one.
Questions about the Substitutions poster
- What’s on the Substitutions poster?
- A 8-row table: Missing · Use instead. Per unit of the missing ingredient. Results are close, rarely identical. 1 cup buttermilk — 1 cup milk + 1 tbsp lemon juice, 10 min; 1 egg (binding) — 1 tbsp ground flax + 3 tbsp water; 1 tsp baking powder — 1/4 tsp bicarb + 1/2 tsp cream of tartar; 1 cup self-raising flour — 1 cup plain + 1.5 tsp baking powder; 1 cup soured cream — 1 cup plain yoghurt; 1 cup brown sugar — 1 cup white + 1 tbsp molasses; 1 cup crème fraîche — 1 cup double cream + 1 tbsp lemon; Fresh herbs — 1/3 the amount, dried. Bicarbonate of soda needs an acid to work. Baking powder brings its own — they are not interchangeable one-for-one.
- Who is the Substitutions poster for?
- Substitutions belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning measures can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Substitutions poster?
- Substitute by function. Something acidic, something binding, something fatty — match the job. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Substitutions belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Substitutions?
- Baking at Altitude, Brining and Coffee Ratios sit alongside Substitutions in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Baking at AltitudeBriningCoffee Ratios
- Is the Substitutions poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Substitutions downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Substitutions poster print at?
- Substitutions is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Substitutions loses nothing.Printing guide
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