Substitutions

How many times have you dismissed a recipe because you may not have an ingredient on hand?  Yesterday's cookies called for buttermilk.  Why buy a quart when you need only a half a cup?  To make a cup of buttermilk, put a tablespoon of white vinegar in a cup measure and add milk to the cup mark.
    A teaspoon of Allspice is equal to a 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ginger, and 1/4 tsp cloves.

A cup of sour cream can be replaced by a cup of plain yogurt.

A cup of bread crumbs as a topping can have several substitutions :  1  cup crushed cracker crumbs, or 1 cup crushed cornflakes or 1 cup crushed potato chips