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    Foreign Food Items and Their U.S. Equivalents
    Icing sugar -- powdered sugar, confectioner' s sugar
    Caster Sugar -- Superfine sugar
    Demerara -- light brown sugar
    Muscovado -- raw unrefind sugar
    Cornflour -- Cornstarch
    Sultanas -- White raisins
    Single Cream -- Light cream
    Double Cream -- Heavy Cream
    Bicarbonate of soda -- Baking Soda
    Digestive Biscuits -- Graham crackers
    Biscuit -- Cookie or cracker
    Minced meat -- Ground meat
    Aubergine -- Eggplant
    Beetroot -- Beet
    Courgette -- zucchini
    Swede -- Rutabaga
    Mangetout -- snow/sugar peas
    1 ounce Chocolate -- 1 square
    2/3 ounce Bakers yeast -- 1 cake
    3 teaspoons Dried yeast -- 1 cake
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    would anyone know what the "american" equivalent for quark cheese is? i never even heard of it before..
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    well some of them I recognise...LOL...if someone knows about other substitutions, but the other way around, it would be great. I mean, there are lots of things in your recipes, that we don't have here in Portugal, such as sourcream, and buttermilk.


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    Default Re: Foreign Food Items and Their U.S. Equivalents

    I've learned that Sriracha Sauce is much like Tobasco sauce but less vinegar and more garlic.

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