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Fran Costigan - Whisk, Whip, and Wow
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Question:
Can you help me convert an old country recipe for an open fruit cake with a shortbread-like cake that I would like to make vegan?
— Katherine Collard
Answer:
I would need more information, but I would suggest that you look at some, uh, already available vegan recipes, um, that contain fruit. We have a lovely, really easy different kind of a c cobbler i in in this course where we just, the recipe calls for taking some vegan butter and melting it right in the baking dish and then making a simple batter with flour, some sugar. I don't have the recipe in my head probably there's leavening and pouring it right over the melted butter and not stirring it and then tapping it with lots of fruit and baking it. And it's a very, I did some research into this type of recipe. It's got lots of different names and it seems it's been around for a really long, excuse me, long time. So people who are looking to convert recipes from traditional egg, egg-based recipes to vegan egg less recipes. Remember the milk part is easy. You're going to need more leavening baking powder, baking soda and vinegar. And then if you, if your recipe has one or two eggs, those are easy to convert beyond two eggs. If it's a three egg cake and so on, I would say find a vegan version.