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 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 8 Apr 2011 04:39 pm (UTC)Until I met CP (who has apparently always had red meat in his diet, whereas I was raised on mostly chicken & fish and red meat maybe once or twice a month -- and ground beef, at that!) -- my diet seemed odd enough to people that I wondered if a title would help that could be shorthand for "avoids red meat". Now I do eat far more red meat than ever before, and frankly, I really wish we could stop already. A big part of that is because I haven't the faintest clue how to cook it! Just was never something I got exposed to as a kid, so it's not even a comfort food. Now, biscuits, that's a comfort food.
an anomaly with vocabulary issues
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Date: 9 Apr 2011 12:15 am (UTC)