The Home Baking Guide to Substituting and Measuring: A Simple and Handy Guide for the Novice Baker

In the Pantry Baking Standards #2

by Joyce Middleton

You’re ready to bake and suddenly you can’t find one of the ingredients in your pantry that is specified in the recipe. Don’t give up – use this short guide to locate a substitution and you’ll avoid having to run to the market. If you’re using a recipe written with foreign measurements, you’ll be able to convert them in minutes. A handy guide on converting standard measurements such as tablespoons to ounces, cups to pints, ounces to a pound, cups to liters and what ingredient you can safely substitute in baking. Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find in this do I convert ounces to grams?How do I convert pints to liters?What can I use when I don’t have dry bread or crumbs?How do I convert cake flour to all-purpose flour?How much garlic powder can I use when I don’t have garlic cloves?I don’t have a vanilla bean; how much vanilla extract should I use?What can I substitute the butter with in my recipe?Do I need to worry about high-altitude when baking pies?Can I use eggs straight from the refrigerator?Safely shredding chocolateWhat is creaming?What is the melting method?Why are my biscuits so crispy?Why do my muffins have a sloping top?Why don’t my popovers ever turn out the sameScroll back up and click the buy button to get your copy now!

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference

35 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 8, 2012

About the author

I've been cooking and baking since I was a girl in grade school. Besides reading, it was one of my first loves.

Reviews

[Nai · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful for reference, and a handy place to have substitutions and suggestions easy to look up.

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

a very good guide especially for the beginning cook on measuring wet or dry ingredients, and also for substituting items in one's recipes

[Maggie Brooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great baking guide. A must have for anyone who bakes or wants to bake.

[Darinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Free Kindle ebook. Useful guide for bakers.