What Can I Subsitute with parchment paper?

Question

First What is parchment paper?
Heres what I need it for:
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.

Answer 1

Parchment paper is a paper you can use to keep the cookies from sticking. It isn't necessary, but it helps a lot to keep anything from sticking to the pan. This kind of paper can be used in the oven without it burning, and you can use it again, ie take one batch of cookies off the pans, and put the next batch on the same piece of parchment paper. Texture is a bit like wax paper, but without the wax.

Answer 2

There's no perfect sustitute for parchment, but in your case (at the temperature you're cooking at), waxed paper would work just fine. Aluminum foil would also work, but unless you're using the "release" kind of non-stick foil, you'll have to grease the foil.

At very high temperatures, like for making candies, waxed paper would burn or melt, so in a situation like that you'd HAVE to use parchment. But at 325, the waxed paper will hold up OK.

For future reference, go out and buy yourself some parchment paper...you'll wonder how you ever did without it. You can buy it in folded sheets, as well as in rolls (similar to foil or plastic wrap). One added benefit: usually, if you've used a piece of parchment for baking, you can re-use the same piece a couple of times.

Answer 3

You don't need parchment paper just butter, grease or spray your sheets w/ pam. Parchment paper is a paper that can be cooked on or in. In baking it's used to keep foods from sticking to or staining the pans that they are on. Otherwise you can cook meats and veggies (very healthy method- French in origin) in it by wrapping them into the paper creating a sealed envelope then placing in the oven on a sheet pan.

Answer 4

line the cookie sheets with parchment the cookies wont stick and neither will nothing else u cook on it. parchement is a combination of waxed greased and foil paper. it works wonders and i love it...