stupid but quick question
8 Apr 2011 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaigouvegetarian = no eggs = no bread ... correct?
is this generally a hard-and-fast rule, enough to consider it a pretty safe assumption?
ETA: apparently the unclear part above is my expectation that bread contains eggs. Yes, as a matter of fact, bread can contain eggs -- pretty much my entire repertoire of bread-recipes all contain at least one egg. (Some of them contain two eggs, even, and some even have milk.) This is not to say I've never made bread without eggs -- I have -- but I don't much care for the texture or the reluctant timbre of the bread when working with it. With eggs, the bread is considerably silkier/smoother, and just more pleasant and easy to work with; thus it's not a headache to let it rise six times and really become amazingly-melty. Or shorter version: bread can contain eggs.
ETA the 2nd: I suppose it might've been less confusing if I'd asked about, say, angel food cake... for which my grandmother's recipe uses the whites of like a dozen eggs. I rarely make it, though, because I hate wasting a dozen egg yolks, but I'm never quite sure what to do with them...
is this generally a hard-and-fast rule, enough to consider it a pretty safe assumption?
ETA: apparently the unclear part above is my expectation that bread contains eggs. Yes, as a matter of fact, bread can contain eggs -- pretty much my entire repertoire of bread-recipes all contain at least one egg. (Some of them contain two eggs, even, and some even have milk.) This is not to say I've never made bread without eggs -- I have -- but I don't much care for the texture or the reluctant timbre of the bread when working with it. With eggs, the bread is considerably silkier/smoother, and just more pleasant and easy to work with; thus it's not a headache to let it rise six times and really become amazingly-melty. Or shorter version: bread can contain eggs.
ETA the 2nd: I suppose it might've been less confusing if I'd asked about, say, angel food cake... for which my grandmother's recipe uses the whites of like a dozen eggs. I rarely make it, though, because I hate wasting a dozen egg yolks, but I'm never quite sure what to do with them...
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Date: 8 Apr 2011 03:52 pm (UTC)However, vegan always = no eggs.
Also, having been vegan for many years, I can tell you honestly that the average loaf of bread doesn't have eggs in it. Usually the problem area was whey, but even that wasn't hard to avoid.
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Date: 8 Apr 2011 04:34 pm (UTC)Actually, all the bread I've ever made always has at least one egg in it. But since I'm pretty sure I didn't bake when you came to visit, at least that means I don't think I accidentally exposed you to any eggs. Whew.
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Date: 9 Apr 2011 10:14 am (UTC)