If you recipes calls for using an alcoholic beverage, what can you use instead?
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Most Commonly Used Substitutes
| Beer or Ale | - non-alcoholic beer, chicken stock, beef stock or mushroom stock |
| Port | - grape juice with a little lime zest or cranberry juice with a little lemon juice added or orange juice |
| Red Wine | - Concord grape juice, red wine vinegar, or non-alcoholic red wine |
| White Wine | - white grape juice with a little white wine vinegar added or non-alcoholic white wine |
| Sweet White Wine | - white grape juice with a pinch of powdered sugar added. |
| Champagne | - ginger ale, sparkling cranberry or white grape juice or sparkling apple cider |
| Coffee Liqueur | - espresso, non-alcoholic coffee extract or coffee syrup |
Other Commonly Used Substitutes
Amaretto |
- almond extract |
| Anisette | - anise Italian soda syrup or fennel |
| Bourbon | - vanilla extract, orange or pineapple juice or peach syrup |
| Brandy | - brady extract |
| Chambord | - raspberry juice, syrup or extract |
| Cherry Liqueur | - syrup form a can or jar of cherries |
| Cherry Brandy | - same as Cherry Liqueur |
| Cognac | - juice from peaches, apricots, or pears |
| Cointreau | - orange juice concentrate |
| Creme de Cacao | - non-alcoholic vanilla extract and powdered sugar |
| Creme de menthe | - spearmint extract diluted in a little water |
| Kahlua | - coffee liqueur |
| Rum | - white grape juice, apple juice or apple cinder flavored with almond extract |
| Sherry | - vanilla extract, orange or pineapple juice or peach syrup |
| Vodka | - white grape juice or apple cinder mixed with lime juice |
