Easy Substituting
Out of baking powder (or baking soda or even milk)?
Make your own with our ingredient substitutions guide.
| Baking powder | 20 ml | = | 10 ml cream of tartar + 5 ml bicarbonate of soda |
| Butter | 120 g | = | 120 ml cooking oil |
| Butter or margarine, melted | 250 ml | = | 250 ml cooking oil |
| Chocolate (unsweetened) | 30 g | = | 50-60 ml cocoa + 10 ml butter |
| Cornflour | 15 ml | = | 30 ml cake flour |
| Cream of tartar | 5 ml | = | 15 ml lemon juice or vinegar or 3 ml tartaric acid |
| Egg | 1 whole | = | 30 ml water + 3 ml baking powder or 1 egg white + 10 ml cooking oil |
| Lemon juice | 5 ml | = | 3 ml vinegar |
| Self raising flour | 250 ml | = | 250 ml cake flour + 5 ml baking powder |
| Self raising flour (Sea-level) | 250 ml | = | 250 ml cake flour + 7 ml baking powder |
| Sour milk or sour cream | 250 ml | = | 250 ml milk plus 20 ml lemon juice or 15 ml vinegar |
| Sugar | 250 ml | = | 200 ml golden syrup or honey |
| Yeast | 15 ml / 10 g instant dry yeast | = | 25 g fresh cube yeast |
| Yoghurt | 250 ml | = | 250 ml buttermilk or sour cream |