• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    At minimum, knowing how to substitute eggs in baking is a basic life skill if you like feeding yourself.

    In baked goods, each = 1 egg:

    1/4 cup applesauce

    1/4 cup mashed banana

    3 tbsp nut butter

    1/4 cup yogurt

    1 tbsp ground flax seed + 3 tbsp water

    Even when bird flu isn’t going on, sometimes you just don’t have an egg. Know your options!

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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      10 hours ago

      I use a shelf-stable egg replacer in my baking, mostly because I hardly ever have eggs on hand. (Bob’s Red Mill is the brand I see, but I’m sure there’s other brands out there)

      I guess I’m big on shelf-stable substitutes for stuff that goes bad fast: I also have powdered milk for baking/sauces, and textured vegetable protein to add protein and texture to things I’d usually use ground meat for, where the meat’s flavor would be overpowered by the sauce anyway.

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      10 hours ago

      You underestimate the power of laziness. That’s a lot of steps to approximate an egg.

      It’s far easier to bake less and eat fewer eggs. Trust a lazy person. Either that or I’ll wait until eggplants can grow real eggs.

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        10 hours ago

        Adding 1/4 cup applesauce isn’t that much of a bother, I promise! (Each item equals an egg, not mix all together to equal an egg)

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          Ohhhhh that makes much more sense. I was going to complain about the volume of those things too, but I figured I had already complained about enough. Turns out my complaint was crazy.

          TIL