{"id":1099,"date":"2017-12-31T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2017-12-31T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T15:38:54","slug":"substitutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/31\/substitutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Substitutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A note on some basic substitutions you can make to accommodate differences in what is available in stores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUET<\/strong><br \/>\nSome stores in the US are now selling &#8220;beef tallow&#8221;. Beef tallow is rendered out suet. It also tends to be painfully expensive. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com is now selling Atora suet, which is cheaper than the tallow, but still somewhat costly. Whether it is worth buying for the sake of flavour is a decision I will leave to you!<\/p>\n<p>I find that frozen and grated butter works fine as a substitute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUDDING BASIN<\/strong><br \/>\nThe ideal situation is to just buy a pudding basin. They are not too expensive, but they are uni-taskers. Any glass or metal container which is roughly twice or thrice as tall as it is wide will make a decent substitute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIXED SPICE<\/strong><br \/>\nPumpkin pie spice is fine as a substitute. You can also make your own mixed spice blend to taste, just use the sweet spices such as cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note on some basic substitutions you can make to accommodate differences in what is available in stores. SUET Some stores in the US are now selling &#8220;beef tallow&#8221;. Beef tallow is rendered out suet. It also tends to be painfully expensive. Amazon.com is now selling Atora suet, which is cheaper than the tallow, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-cheap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}