RecipeMuncher

I’m not a fan of ingredient substitutes. For most of my life, substitutions were a way of replacing a real food that people were being taught to fear with a man-made product that turns out — after a few decades of people eating it — to be worse than the original. There’s margarine instead of butter, shortening instead of bacon fat, powdered egg whites instead of whole eggs, agave instead of sugar. Now we know that  margarine and shortening are loaded with trans fats, wh (...)