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Fran Costigan - Desserts With a Difference
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Question:
Can you suggest egg substitutes for desserts?
— Debarah Lewis
Answer:
Well, definitely because that's
a question. We get all the times. We
have a whole unit in the course on egg substitutes.
And I stand by my belief
that there is no one size
fits all it depends on what your making in
choosing your egg substitute. Now, just
some of you have heard me say this but I
think it Bears repeating when I tradition
out of the traditional pastry kitchen
well over 25 years ago, there were no egg substitutes.
Nobody was talking about Flex gel aquafaba.
There was no
commercially available egg substitutes, so
I went and looked at Just Desserts
during
wartime when eggs weren't
they weren't available to people and there are these
what we now call Accidentally Vegan.
eggs that were made with baking powder baking soda and
vinegar or baking soda and vinegar
and that was my base. So I very
rarely use an actual egg
substitute. I have developed my recipes without egg
substitute. So you think
about what function of the egg you're
replacing liquid is really easy binding is
really easy leavening.
Unless the eggs are separated in the whites are with
separately. They don't leavens as
much as people tend to think and structure is
easy. So you can use a flax gel a
Chia gel that's for binding some people
use aquafaba and amount of aquafaba
for binding and leavening.
Or a commercial egg replacer. There are
a few on the market just follow the directions baking powder
baking soda and vinegar will help
you our cakes 11 and in terms of
A creme brulee or a pudding or something? That
would have a different kind the egg
would be used differently. You can think of a
cashew cream or
silken tofu. Blended works very well.