New Vegan trying to learn all the ins and out of my kitchens!

[Guest guest]

Trying to learn how to replace all animal product incl the eggs that

are present in all our bread and baked goodies. I'm feeding a family

that includes 1,4 & 5 year olds in addition to hubby and I who are,

fortunately, in complete agreement to this wonderful and healthful

lifestyle change for our family. Any tips or product info would be

greatly appreciated. I'm not finding egg subs and Seitan or TVP, etc.

Where to go and what to buy! Thanks! ~Tammy

[Guest guest]

My Organic Market and perhaps other organic markets have " Egg Replacer " whcih

works wonderfully in all my baked goods. I haven't bought eggs in months but it

didn't stop my baking!

 

Mary Ann

 

bmtsolution <btmorris wrote:

Trying to learn how to replace all animal product incl the eggs that

are present in all our bread and baked goodies. I'm feeding a family

that includes 1,4 & 5 year olds in addition to hubby and I who are,

fortunately, in complete agreement to this wonderful and healthful

lifestyle change for our family. Any tips or product info would be

greatly appreciated. I'm not finding egg subs and Seitan or TVP, etc.

Where to go and what to buy! Thanks! ~Tammy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Egg Replacer is made out of potato starch and when you add water and

whip it up, it resembles egg whites. I've found that if I use around

twice or more of what they recommend on the package, things work out

well. What I'm saying is that adding more doesn't seem to hurt the

end product, and could improve it.

 

There are some recipes, though, that don't include eggs or egg

replacer. " The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook " has recipes for quick

breads, cookies, and cakes and I don't think any include egg

replacer. I make the banana recipe all the time. You can sub pumpkin

for bananas and that's delish as well.

 

As far as seitan, if you don't have a hfs nearby you can order the

mix: " Quick Seitan " I think it's called, by mail order. Also, the

NFVC (above) has several recipes for using seitan. I love the " Oven

Fried Gluten " . I skip the breading part.

 

Anyway, I really recommend that you purchase this cookbook. It is a

great starting point for vegan cooking. Lots of kid-friendly recipes.

 

Good luck!

 

Tracy

 

On Aug 8, 2006, at 8:45 PM, Mary Ann Grimm wrote:

 

> My Organic Market and perhaps other organic markets have " Egg

> Replacer " whcih works wonderfully in all my baked goods. I haven't

> bought eggs in months but it didn't stop my baking!

>

> Mary Ann

>

> bmtsolution <btmorris wrote:

> Trying to learn how to replace all animal product incl the eggs that

> are present in all our bread and baked goodies. I'm feeding a family

> that includes 1,4 & 5 year olds in addition to hubby and I who are,

> fortunately, in complete agreement to this wonderful and healthful

> lifestyle change for our family. Any tips or product info would be

> greatly appreciated. I'm not finding egg subs and Seitan or TVP, etc.

> Where to go and what to buy! Thanks! ~Tammy

>

>

>

>

> Get on board. You're invited to try the new Mail Beta.

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[Guest guest]

when we first went vegan, 16 months ago, we bought a box of egg replacer,

because my husband is a baked goods freak and we were sure he'd need it.

but we actually haven't used even half the box and we haven't used it at all

in months. egg replacer is pretty much only for baked goods and we've found

that it is far more temperamental than other non-branded egg replacers, like

flax meal or applesauce. now when we make waffles, muffins, banana bread,

etc., we just use applesauce, banana or flax meal and we almost never use

the actual " egg replacer. " so experiment a lot.

 

you can purchase the quick setian and it works up very quickly indeed. but

you can also make seitan yourself from plain old flour.

http://www.fatfree.com/archive/1997/sep/msg00252.html

 

for many other vegan substitutes and products (including the aforementioned

quick seitan and egg replacer) i highly recommend the farm's healthy eating

catalog (www.healthy-eating.com). it's also great for books (they have

sales constantly) and bulk orders for food storage. i order something from

them every few months and they are always awesome.

 

chandelle'

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I think a couple of people have asked about replacing eggs for baking

recently. The Post Punk Kitchen (http://www.theppk.com/) has a really

great guide on vegan baking ( http://www.theppk.com/veganbaking.html

) and when you'll want to use which solution. (It's also in her

cookbook, Vegan with a Vengeance.) And in the fall, she's coming out

with Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, which I can't wait for. (If

you go to the ppk blog and go back a ways, you can see some pictures

of those cupcakes. Droooool...)

 

There's also a seitan recipe, which is so much better than buying

storebought (and really easy, I promise), but for some reason the one

on the website is wrong. It should be 2C of vital wheat gluten + 2TBSP

of ww flour - everything else exactly as written.

 

-- kt

http://coffeeandcables.blogspot.com/

[Guest guest]

Go to this website and order " Vegetarian Starter Kit " - it's free. There are

also great recipes on this website.

http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/index.html

 

CMM <bokodasu wrote:

I think a couple of people have asked about replacing eggs for baking

recently. The Post Punk Kitchen (http://www.theppk.com/) has a really

great guide on vegan baking ( http://www.theppk.com/veganbaking.html

) and when you'll want to use which solution. (It's also in her

cookbook, Vegan with a Vengeance.) And in the fall, she's coming out

with Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, which I can't wait for. (If

you go to the ppk blog and go back a ways, you can see some pictures

of those cupcakes. Droooool...)

 

There's also a seitan recipe, which is so much better than buying

storebought (and really easy, I promise), but for some reason the one

on the website is wrong. It should be 2C of vital wheat gluten + 2TBSP

of ww flour - everything else exactly as written.

 

-- kt

http://coffeeandcables.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

 

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