Ingredient Substitutes

Substitutes for dairy

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

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133 cards

A
- Acidophilus milkbest swap: Plain milk (whole, reduced-fat or skim)
- All-purpose creambest swap: Media crema or table cream (Nestle Media Crema, Elle et Vire, President table cream)
- Amasibest swap: Plain full-fat yogurt, thinned with milk
- American cheesebest swap: Cheddar cheese
- Ashtabest swap: Homemade cornstarch ashta
B
- Blue cheesebest swap: Gorgonzola
- Boursin cheesebest swap: Homemade herbed cream cheese
- Brickbest swap: Muenster
- Brie cheesebest swap: Camembert
- Bulgarian yogurtbest swap: Plain whole-milk yogurt
- Butterbest swap: Stick margarine
- Buttermilkbest swap: Milk + lemon juice or vinegar
- Buttermilk powderbest swap: Liquid buttermilk, with the water removed
C
- Cheddar cheesebest swap: Colby cheese
- Cheesebest swap: Nutritional yeast
- Chihuahua cheesebest swap: Monterey Jack
- Clabbered milkbest swap: Cultured buttermilk
- Clotted creambest swap: Mascarpone cheese
- Coffee creamerbest swap: Milk
- Colby Jackbest swap: Cheddar
- Compound butterbest swap: Make it yourself in five minutes
- Comté cheesebest swap: Gruyère
- Condensed milkbest swap: Evaporated milk + sugar
- Cotija cheesebest swap: Feta cheese
- Cottage cheesebest swap: Ricotta cheese
- Cream cheesebest swap: Mascarpone
- Cream cheese frostingbest swap: Buttercream frosting
- Crema agriabest swap: Full-fat sour cream with salt and lime
- Creme anglaisebest swap: Melted good-quality vanilla ice cream
- Créme fraîchebest swap: Sour cream + heavy cream
- Crescenzabest swap: Cream cheese
- Cultured butterbest swap: Regular unsalted butter
D
- Dahibest swap: Plain whole-milk yogurt
- Double creambest swap: Heavy cream
- Drinking yogurtbest swap: Plain yogurt whisked with milk or water
- Dry milkbest swap: Regular milk
- Dublinerbest swap: Aged Cheddar
E
- Ergobest swap: Plain whole-milk yogurt, thinned
- Evaporated milkbest swap: Half-and-half
F
- Farmer cheesebest swap: Cottage cheese
- Feta cheesebest swap: Cotija cheese
- Filmjolkbest swap: Cultured buttermilk
- Fontina cheesebest swap: Gruyère cheese
- Fromage blancbest swap: Cream cheese
- Frozen yogurtbest swap: Vanilla ice cream
G
- Goat milkbest swap: Whole cow's milk, plain or with a spoonful of chevre whisked in
- Gouda cheesebest swap: Edam
- Graddfilbest swap: Sour cream thinned with milk
- Greek yogurtbest swap: Regular yogurt
H
- Half and halfbest swap: Whole milk + heavy cream
- Halloumi cheesebest swap: Paneer
- Havarti cheesebest swap: Gouda
- Heavy creambest swap: Half and half + butter
- Heavy whipping creambest swap: Milk + butter
J
- Jameedbest swap: Goat or sheep yogurt, stabilised and salted
- Jarlsbergbest swap: Swiss cheese
K
- Kashkbest swap: Sour cream plus feta brine and salt
- Kaymakbest swap: Clotted cream, salted
- Kefalogravierabest swap: Aged Pecorino Romano
- Kefalotyribest swap: Pecorino Romano
- Kefirbest swap: Buttermilk
- Kefir grainsbest swap: Powdered or freeze-dried kefir starter culture
- Khoyabest swap: Full-fat milk powder with milk and ghee
- Kumisbest swap: Milk kefir
L
- Labnehbest swap: Greek yogurt
- Lactose-free milkbest swap: Regular whole milk
- Lassibest swap: Plain yogurt whisked with water
- Lbenbest swap: Plain kefir
- Light creambest swap: Half-and-half
- Liquid wheybest swap: Buttermilk
M
- Mahónbest swap: Aged Manchego
- Malaibest swap: Heavy cream or double cream
- Malted milk powderbest swap: Dry milk powder plus barley malt syrup
- Manchego cheesebest swap: Pecorino Romano
- Manouribest swap: Ricotta
- Margarinebest swap: Butter
- Mascarpone cheesebest swap: Cream cheese
- Matsonibest swap: Plain whole-milk yogurt
- Media cremabest swap: Half-and-half
- Mexican cremabest swap: Sour cream
- Milkbest swap: Soy milk (unsweetened)
- Milnotbest swap: Evaporated milk
- Mimolettebest swap: Aged Gouda
- Mizithrabest swap: Ricotta
- Monterey Jack cheesebest swap: Colby cheese
- Mozzarella cheesebest swap: Provolone
N
- Neufchâtel cheesebest swap: Cream cheese
O
- Oaxaca cheesebest swap: Mozzarella cheese
P
- Paneerbest swap: Tofu
- Panelabest swap: Queso fresco
- Parmesan cheesebest swap: Pecorino Romano
- Pot cheesebest swap: Farmer cheese
Q
- Quarkbest swap: Strained full-fat Greek yogurt
R
- Raclette cheesebest swap: Gruyere
- Reblochonbest swap: Brie
- Red Leicesterbest swap: Aged Cheddar
- Rennetbest swap: Lemon juice
- Requeijaobest swap: Cream cheese loosened with heavy cream
- Requesonbest swap: Whole-milk ricotta
- Ricotta cheesebest swap: Cottage cheese
- Robiolabest swap: Brie
- Ryazhenkabest swap: Plain kefir
S
- Scamorzabest swap: Mozzarella
- Shrikhandbest swap: Greek yogurt beaten with powdered sugar, cardamom and saffron
- Single creambest swap: Half-and-half, or American light cream
- Skim milkbest swap: 1% milk
- Skyrbest swap: Greek yogurt
- Smenbest swap: Ghee plus aged cheese
- Smetanabest swap: Creme fraiche
- Sour creambest swap: Plain Greek yogurt (full-fat)
- Sour cream powderbest swap: Buttermilk powder
- Sour milkbest swap: Milk plus lemon juice or white vinegar
- Stracchinobest swap: Cream cheese
- Strained yogurtbest swap: Plain yogurt you strain yourself (hung curd)
- Suzmabest swap: Full-fat plain Greek yogurt
- Sweetened condensed milkbest swap: Evaporated milk + sugar
T
- Telemebest swap: Monterey Jack
- Tomabest swap: Ricotta
- Topfenbest swap: Quark
- Tumabest swap: Ricotta
- Tvorogbest swap: Farmer cheese or dry curd cottage cheese
V
- Vegan butterbest swap: Regular butter
- Velveeta cheesebest swap: Cheddar cheese
- Viilibest swap: Filmjolk
W
- Whipped creambest swap: Coconut cream
- Whipping creambest swap: Heavy cream
- White American cheesebest swap: White Cheddar cheese
- Whole milkbest swap: 2% milk
Y
- Ymerbest swap: Plain whole-milk yogurt
- Yogurtbest swap: Greek yogurt
- Yogurt powderbest swap: Buttermilk powder
- Yogurt starter culturebest swap: Plain live-culture yogurt
Z
- Zabadibest swap: Plain whole-milk yogurt

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