I guess there's things like challah and brioche, which are bread rather than cake in much the same way tomato is a vegetable rather than a fruit
I can only presume that the Southern family recipes I grew up with must be from that same strain of baking -- because all my memorized recipes contain at least one egg. I mean, I vaguely knew there could be bread without eggs (like the sourdough my mom specializes in, IIRC)... but taste and texture wise, I prefer the recipes I bake. Hence egg in bread, if someone doesn't eat egg, then they wouldn't be able to eat my bread. Or, at least, it would be terribly rude to offer it to them, knowing that it contains egg (and clearly with everyone else having the working assumption that bread doesn't contain egg). That would be like trick-bread, deceptive.
I've never met anyone who objects to yeast, per se, except for a close friend who's allergic/sensitive to it, so what she makes/eats are breads leavened with baking powder, like scones and that sort. So I'm not unaware that there are different ways to make bread... I jsut didn't realize the default most-common bread is (or at least is assumed to be) egg-free.
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Date: 8 Apr 2011 04:44 pm (UTC)I can only presume that the Southern family recipes I grew up with must be from that same strain of baking -- because all my memorized recipes contain at least one egg. I mean, I vaguely knew there could be bread without eggs (like the sourdough my mom specializes in, IIRC)... but taste and texture wise, I prefer the recipes I bake. Hence egg in bread, if someone doesn't eat egg, then they wouldn't be able to eat my bread. Or, at least, it would be terribly rude to offer it to them, knowing that it contains egg (and clearly with everyone else having the working assumption that bread doesn't contain egg). That would be like trick-bread, deceptive.
I've never met anyone who objects to yeast, per se, except for a close friend who's allergic/sensitive to it, so what she makes/eats are breads leavened with baking powder, like scones and that sort. So I'm not unaware that there are different ways to make bread... I jsut didn't realize the default most-common bread is (or at least is assumed to be) egg-free.