egg substitute

westcoastscot

I never bake with eggs and don't have a problem - I replace the volume of egg with liquid - usually soy milk - and my cakes come out fine everytime. I use my usual recipes, usual ingredients
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LJM

maybe its me but i seem to remember being told that in the war they used to replace the egg with vinegar ????

adouglasmhor

Depending on what you are making soya flour or gram flour (chick pea or besan are it's other names) mixed to a thin paste with water can be used. Gram flour can be bought really cheaply from an Indian Food grocers (it's the flour for proper pakora batter).

wigglebeena

Some of the bigger Morrison's have gram flour in the ethnic food aisle, v. cheap too.

adouglasmhor

wigglebeena wrote: »

Some of the bigger Morrison's have gram flour in the ethnic food aisle, v. cheap too.

I use it for a kind of savoury pancake called Farinata in Italin and Socca in French. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socca

ubamother

holland and barratt stock soya flour if that helps.

penguine

This is from the Vegan Society website:

instead of 1 egg, you can use...
• 1 tbsp gram (chick pea) or soya flour and 1 tbsp water
• 1 tbsp arrowroot, 1 tbsp soya flour and 2 tbsp water
• 2 tbsp flour, ½ tbsp shortening, ½ tsp baking powder and 2 tsp water
• 50g tofu blended with the liquid portion of the recipe
• ½ large banana, mashed
• 50 ml white sauce

If you want to replace the oil in a recipe (to reduce the fat content, for example) you can use an exact measure of applesauce (I use baby food apple puree). The texture isn't the same but it can be surprisingly good. It works best if there wasn't a lot of oil in the recipe to begin with.

patchwork_cat

penguine - got any favourite applesauce cake/ baking recipes?

adouglasmhor

wigglebeena wrote: »

Some of the bigger Morrison's have gram flour in the ethnic food aisle, v. cheap too.

Tesco as well.

purpleivy

Hmm, I'm a bit skeptical myself about making sponge type cakes without eggs. I did someones best ever eggless sponge and it was minging. I'm really not fussy at all when it comes to food, particularly cake, but I found this most unpleasant.

It wasn't wasted thought, made a trifle with some of it and the rest of it is in the freezer for another trifle. I can take trifle or leave it, but the rest of the family scoffed it!