Shabbat Swaps: Best Hacks When You’re Missing Ingredients

Our whole family loved this bread. It isn't quite Schlotsky's bread but darn close. I've made this twice. This last time I used half of what the recipe called for in wheat flour and the rest in the regular bread flour just trying to get my family to enjoy a bit of fiber in their diet. I think that either way it is a great way to make a sandwich. Sometimes it works out right, as in the case of Andrew Plotsky, a twenty-six-year-old native of Washington, DC, with grand plans upon his graduation from Skidmore College in Upstate New York to run the length of America on foot, pushing his belongings in a baby jogger, intending to document small farms along the way. Blend potato/onion mash together with eggs and flour. Add minced garlic (for savoury pancakes only). Take the bowl with the excess water (drained the potatoes), remove the liquid carefully, leaving the thicker potato starch at the bottom. Add that starch into our potato pancake mass.

If you’re anything like the OneTable Team, you spend the week before each Shabbat dinner scouring the Internet (ohhey, Bon Appetit) for the perfect recipes to make your guests.

And if you’re anything like the OneTable Team, you might be having a hard time finding the ingredients you need to make the perfect meal right now, but you *can* cook with what you have!

Plotsky Recipe Easy

Here are some key swaps you need whether you’re making challah, matzo ball soup, chocolate chip cookies or anything else.

– Sourdough starter (make your own, here)

– This yeast-less @mandyliciouschallah challah recipe

Plotsky Recipe Pizza

– Sour Milk (To substitute for 1 teaspoon baking powder, combine 1/2 cup sour milk and 1/4 teaspoon baking soda. Reduce the other liquids in the recipe by 1/2 cup to maintain the desired consistency. You can also make sour milk by adding 1 tablespoon lemon juice to 1 cup milk and letting it sit for 2 minutes.)

Plotsky Recipe Easy

– Lemon juice or white wine vinegar (Use 1 teaspoon lemon juice or white vinegar plus a ¼ teaspoon baking soda to make 1 teaspoon of baking powder)

Baking powder (Use 3x amount; 1 teaspoon baking soda, use 3 teaspoons baking powder)

Plotsky Recipe Dessert

1 cup milk of your choice + 1 teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar