stupid but quick question

[kaigou]

vegetarian = 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...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds about right to me.

In my family the basic yeast bread (without eggs) is something you make when the cost of storebought bread is high enough that it's more economical to make your own. It's ordinary boring bread for family use.

Holiday breads (or sweet breads) are almost always made with eggs and generally milk as well.

Kat

[kaigou]

And then there's actual sweetbreads and those... *shudder* It's like a name meant to fake you out. Sounds great, and then you ask what sweetbreads really are -- and if you're about eight when you get the answer, it's an immediate "ewwww!" kind of sense. Well, was for me. I still ate them (because pain-of-death was the alternative) but it was a lot harder to remain ignorant.

Which ironically was why I first avoided many of my Nana's recipes, because she labeled the type of milk as either "sour milk" (buttermilk) or "sweet milk" (regular whole milk). But that association of "sweet" being used to lie to you about what it was had me kinda wary... until my mom finally figured out and explained it to me. A'course, after that, I refused to drink buttermilk, having thus discovered that it was really another fake name for something sour. Heh.