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My collection of quick and easy recipes, cooking tips and recipe substitutions for busy cooks

Mom’s Quick and Easy Recipes

Easy No Egg, No Milk Biscuits for One or Two

Easy Butter Cookies for One or Two

Mix-In-The-Pan Eggless, Milkless Depression Cake

Recipe Tips and Emergency Substitutions

Suddenly discovering you don’t have an important ingredient is no fun when you are in the middle of cooking an old family favorite recipe.  Neither is running out to the store at midnight.  When missing an ingredient, knowing its “equivalent” or substitution can help to save the day.
Adapting recipes from antique cookbooks can also cause confusion.  What is arrowroot and must I consult a wizard?  Mom helps cooks with tips on recipe substitutions, cooking tips and other quick kitchen shortcuts.

moms sauce recipe tips and substitutions

Moms Sauce Recipe Substitutions for Milk, Buttermilk, Cream, Cornstarch & Arrowroot

Mom's Emergency Sauce Recipe Substitutions and Cooking Tips for: Milk, Buttermilk, Cream, Cornstarch & Arrowroot Suddenly discovering you don't have an important ingredient is no fun when you are in the middle of cooking your favorite sauce recipe.  Neither is ...
Moms Chocolate Recipe Tips

Moms Emergency Recipe Tips for Chocolate, Bittersweet, Sweet or Cocoa

Emergency Chocolate Recipe Substitutions for Chocoholic Cooks It is always a good time to bake something with chocolate. But discovering you haven't got a crucial recipe ingredient can ruin the mood. Knowing an ingredient's "equivalent" or substitution can save the ...
Moms Sweet Recipe Tips and Substitutions for sugar and molasses

Sugar Recipe Substitution Tips for Granulated, Powdered and Molasses

Sugary Sweet Emergency Recipe Substitutions or Ingredient Equivalents for Sugars and Molasses Today, Mom helps cooks in the kitchen with recipe tips for granulated, brown, powdered sugars, and molasses.  It's a treat baking sweets, but running out of a crucial ...
Moms No Milk, No Egg, No Butter Biscuits

Mom’s Easy Eggless Biscuits Recipe For One or Two

MomsRetro Easy No Milk, No Egg, Butter Optional Biscuits for One or Two This is a simple vegetarian, eggless, milkless biscuit recipe you can whip up in your toaster oven! You don't need biscuit mix and you don't need to ...
Moms Quick Easy Lazy Sandwich Recipes

Really Lazy Food: Easy Salads and Sandwiches

Lazy Food: Mom's Really Quick, Really Easy Sandwich and Salad Recipe Sometimes it is just too hot to cook, or you're just too busy, too tired... or lazy.  Here a few quick and easy recipes that are easy for beginning ...
Moms Eggless Butter Cookies for one or two

Mom’s Recipes: Easy Eggless Butter Cookies for One or Two

Easy No Egg, No Milk Small Batch Butter (Optional) Cookies This recipe is adapted to make a small amount of buttery shortbread style cookies.  It's great for when it's just you and you need a quick sugar fix or you ...
Moms Molasses Recipe Tips

Moms Recipe Tips and Substitutions for using Molasses as a Sweetener

Baking with Molasses As a Sweetener Molasses has a rich, dark, sweet taste and is used in cakes, cookies and other savory sweet recipes.  It is created during the sugar refining process.  It is slightly less sweet than granulated sugar.  ...

Moms Recipes: Eggless, Milkless Mix-In-The-Pan Depression Cake

Moms Easy Eggless, Milkless Crazy, Mix-In-The-Pan Depression Cake Here's an easy cake recipe that has been around since the Great Depression.  It happens to also be vegetarian because back in the day dairy products were in short supply or very ...
MomsRetro Emergency Recipe Substitutions for Odd Ingredients like lemon zest, horseradish, mustard and paprika

Recipe Substitutions for Lemon Zest, Horseradish and More

Mom Demystifies Lemon Zest, Horseradish, Mustard, Paprika & Other Odd Ingredients With Emergency Recipe Substitutions During family get-togethers or holiday season, cooks are more likely to make recipes that have been in the family for ages.  But this can also ...
Corn Recipe Tip For Cornmeal and Cornstarch

Corn, Cornmeal and Cornstarch Recipe Substitutions With a Johnnycake Recipe

Emergency Recipe Substitutions For Corn Ingredients Including Cornmeal and Cornstarch Suddenly discovering you don't have cornstarch, corn meal or some other corn-based ingredient is no fun when you are in the middle of cooking your favorite recipe. Knowing the equivalent ...
momsretro herbs and spices

Herbs and Spices For Your Kitchen Cabinet

Starting out with Spices Common Herbs and Spices For Your Kitchen Cabinet In years past entire wars were fought over exotic spices.  Trade routes were carefully guarded, beset by pirates and defended by soldiers.  Some kitchen herbs were so valuable ...

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