Ingredient Substitutes

Substitutes for beverages

69 cards, each listed with its best swap. Open one for the amount and every option, stamped.

In this drawer

69 cards

A
- Amazakebest swap: Rice milk plus honey or maple syrup
- Apple ciderbest swap: Apple juice
- Apple juicebest swap: Pear juice
- Ayranbest swap: Plain yogurt whisked with cold water and salt
B
- Black teabest swap: Another black tea variety
- Bloody Mary mixbest swap: Tomato juice plus the seasoning formula
- Butterfly pea flowerbest swap: Blue spirulina powder
C
- Cascarabest swap: Rosehip tea
- Chai concentratebest swap: Homemade chai concentrate from whole spices
- Chamomile teabest swap: Dried linden flower (lime blossom, tilleul)
- Chicory rootbest swap: Roasted dandelion root
- Chocolate milkbest swap: Milk plus chocolate syrup
- Clamatobest swap: Tomato juice plus bottled clam juice
- Club sodabest swap: Sparkling water
- Coconut waterbest swap: Water plus a pinch of salt and sugar
- Coffeebest swap: Decaf coffee
- Cold brew concentratebest swap: Espresso, cooled
- Concord grape juicebest swap: Any dark purple or red grape juice
- Cranberry juicebest swap: Pomegranate juice
- Cream of coconutbest swap: Coconut cream plus sugar
D
- Dandelion rootbest swap: Roasted chicory root
- Decaf coffeebest swap: Regular coffee, brewed weaker
- Dried hibiscusbest swap: Unsweetened cranberry juice
E
- Earl Grey teabest swap: Black tea plus lemon and orange zest
- Elderflower syrupbest swap: Homemade syrup from dried elderflowers
- Espresso powderbest swap: Instant coffee
F
- Frozen limeade concentratebest swap: Frozen lemonade concentrate
G
- Genmaichabest swap: Green tea plus your own toasted rice
- Ginger alebest swap: Lemon-lime soda (Sprite, 7UP, Sierra Mist)
- Ginger juicebest swap: Fresh ginger
- Grapefruit sodabest swap: Fresh grapefruit juice, simple syrup and club soda
- Greek coffeebest swap: Turkish coffee
- Green teabest swap: White tea
- Guarana powderbest swap: Instant espresso powder or instant coffee
- Gunpowder green teabest swap: Chun mee or other loose-leaf Chinese green tea
H
- Hojichabest swap: Roasted barley tea (mugicha or boricha)
- Horchatabest swap: Homemade rice horchata
- Hot cocoa mixbest swap: Cocoa powder plus sugar, made with milk
I
- Instant coffeebest swap: Espresso powder
J
- Jasmine teabest swap: Green tea plus dried jasmine flowers
K
- Kvassbest swap: Kefir or buttermilk with sparkling water
L
- Lapsang souchongbest swap: Smoked paprika (pimenton) plus a plain black teabag
- Lemon-lime sodabest swap: Club soda plus sugar and citrus juice
- Lemonade concentratebest swap: Lemon juice plus sugar plus water
- Lime cordialbest swap: Fresh lime juice plus simple syrup
M
- Maltabest swap: Non-alcoholic stout or dark malt beer + brown sugar
- Margarita mixbest swap: Fresh lime juice plus simple syrup
- Matchabest swap: Green tea powder or finely ground sencha
O
- Oolong teabest swap: Black tea (Assam, Ceylon or English breakfast)
- Orange juicebest swap: Lemon juice
- Ovaltinebest swap: Malted milk powder plus cocoa powder
P
- Palm winebest swap: Cloudy unfiltered hard cider or scrumpy
- Peppermint teabest swap: Spearmint tea or fresh spearmint
- Pineapple juicebest swap: Orange juice
- Pomegranate juicebest swap: Cranberry juice
R
- Roasted barley teabest swap: Barley you toast yourself
- Rooibos teabest swap: Honeybush
S
- Salepbest swap: Cornstarch (cornflour)
- Salgambest swap: Beet kvass
- Senchabest swap: Bancha or genmaicha
- Sour mixbest swap: Fresh lemon juice plus simple syrup
T
- Taro powderbest swap: Ube powder (purple yam powder)
- Tart cherry juicebest swap: Pomegranate juice
- Thai teabest swap: Strong black tea plus star anise and cardamom
- Tonic waterbest swap: Club soda with simple syrup and bitters
- Turkish coffeebest swap: Instant espresso powder
W
- White cranberry juicebest swap: Apple juice
- White teabest swap: Light green tea (dragon well, mild sencha or a Chinese green)
Y
- Yerba matebest swap: Green tea (gunpowder or sencha)

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