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When cooking food using a slow-cooker, the cooking times must be increased in comparison to the cooking times required to cook the same food in a conventional oven.
Use the charts below to help determine how much to buy of the foods listed below when preparing a meal or a recipe for a specific number of people.
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The quantities in the chart below are approximates only.
Use this alcohol substitution and conversion chart to select ingredient substitutes when you do not want to use alcohol in recipes that call for the use of alcohol.
Alcohol Substitutes for Cooking
Type of Alcohol
Substitute
Amaretto
Almond extract (1/2 teaspoon extract for 2 tablespoons of Amaretto) or Italian soda syrup.
Use this food substitution and conversion chart to select ingredient substitutes when you are cooking and your recipe suggests ingredients you do not have available.
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Herbs, Spices and Seasonings Substitutions
Food
Amount
Substitute
Allspice
1 tsp
1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ground cloves OR1/2 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/4 tsp.
Use this can size equivalent chart to find out how much of an ingredient you need when your recipe suggests a specific can size rather than a volume quantity.
Numbered Can Sizes | Miscellaneous Can Sizes
Numbered Can Sizes
Numbered Can Size
Volume
Equivalents
#1
11 oz.
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Storing your food properly and under the best condition possible will extend its life to its maximum potential. Some foods can be stored at room temperature and some must be refrigerated.
Use this quick calculator to convert it for you:
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Fahrenheit
Celsius
-40°F
-40°C
-22°F
-30°C
-20°F
-28.9°C
-10°F
-23.

Use the chart below as a quick reference when deciding which apple is best for your particular needs.
Variety of Apple
Fresh
Salad
Bake
Cook
Pie
Dried
Other
Ambrosia
X
X
Baldwin
X
X
Cider
Braeburn
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Cameo
X
X
X
Connell Red
X
X
X
Sauce
Cortland
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Crab Apples
Jelly &WineButter
Criterion
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Elstar
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Empire
X
X
X
X
X
X
Fireside
X
X
X
X
X
Fuji
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Gala
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Ginger Gold
X
X
X
Sauce
Golden Delicious
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Golden Russet
X
X
X
Cider
Golden Supreme
X
X
Cider
Granny Smith
X
X
X
X
X
Gravenstein
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Haralson
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Honeycrisp
X
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Honeygold
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Idared
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Jonagold
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Jonamac
X
X
X
Jonathan
X
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Keepsake
X
X
Lady
X
Sauce
Macoun
X
X
McIntosh
X
X
X
X*
Sauce
Melrose
X
X
X
X
Mutsu
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Newton Pippin
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Northern Spy
X
X
Sauce
Northwest Greening
X
X
X
Sauce
Pacific Queen
X
X
Pacific Rose
X
X
Paula Red
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce**
Pink Fir
X
X
Pink Lady
X
X
X
X
Prairie Spy
X
X
X
X
Red Delicious
X
X
Redfree
X
X
X
Regent
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Rhode Island Greening
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Rome
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Sierra Beauty
X
X
Southern Rose
X
X
Spartan
X
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Splendor
X
Dessert
Stayman
X
X
X
X
X
Sunrise
X
X
X
Sweet 16
X
X
Sauce
Wealthy
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Winesap
X
X
X
X
Sauce
Wolf River
X
X
X
X
Sauce
York Imperial
X
X
X
Sauce
Zestar
X
X
Sauce
*May need a thickener when used in pies because of the juiciness of the apple.
Use this ingredient equivalent chart to find out how much of an ingredient you need when your recipe suggests an unfamiliar quantity.
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S - Ingredients
Ingredient
Amount
Equivalents
Saffron, threads
4 to 6
1/4 tsp.
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N - Ingredients
Ingredient
Amount
Equivalents
Navy Beans, dried
1 lb.
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D - Ingredients
Ingredient
Amount
Equivalents
Dandelion Greens
1 lb.
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A - Ingredients
Ingredient
Amount
Equivalents
Alfalfa Sprouts
1 lb.
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