WE NEED OUR COMFORT FOOD, even though eggs are almost worth their weight in gold (even at $3,000 per troy ounce). I've been posting these one at a time but here's a whole set. Some are also gluten free or dairy free.
1. WWII eggless cakes were developed for rationing. Use these recipes for muffins. Change out the raisins for other smallfruit or chopped cherries, figs or dates.
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
1 cup raisins
2 tablespoons oil or 2
tablespoons margarine
1 teaspoon cinnamon, ground
1⁄2 teaspoon clove, ground
1 1⁄2 cups flour
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
1⁄2 cup walnuts, chopped
1.
Place the brown sugar, water, raisins, oil, cinnamon, and cloves in a
heavy-bottomed saucepan and bring to a boil.
2.
Cook gently for 5 minutes, then remove from the heat and let cool until
the mixture is comfortably warm to your finger.
3.
While the mixture is cooling, preheat the oven to 350F.
4.
Grease and flour an 8x4-inch baking pan.
5.
Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
6.
Add them to the cooled sugar mixture, beating until no drifts of flour are
visible and the batter is smooth.
7.
Stir in the walnuts.
8.
Spread evenly in the baking pan and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a
broomstraw inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
9. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto a rack to cool completely.
Notes: For a good glaze, even
if it is a 90's addition, save back a bit of the hot spiced water.
Mix with confectioner's
sugar, a drop of vanilla, and a pinch salt. Glaze the cake while hot.
1 cup (240mL) water
3/4 cup (150g) sugar
1/3 cup (80mL) oil
1/4 cup (20g) cocoa powder
1 tbs (15mL) vinegar
1 tsp (6g) baking soda
1 tsp (5mL) vanilla
(optional)
1/2 tsp (2.5g) salt
For the Glaze
1 cup (125g) powdered sugar
1 tbs (5g) cocoa powder
1 – 3 tbs (15-45mL) water
1.
Preheat oven to 350F (180C.)
2.
Grease and line the bottom of a 9" (23cm) round cake pan and set
aside.
3.
Combine flour, sugar cocoa, baking soda and salt in a small bowl. Sit
aside.
4.
In a large bowl, combine water, oil, vanilla and vinegar. Add flour mixture,
stirring until there are no lumps, about 30 seconds. Pour immediately into cake
pan.
5.
Bake 25 – 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out
clean. Center should read between 200F (93C) and 210F (99C.)
6.
Cool completely in pan before icing.
7.
For the Glaze
8.
In a small bowl, combine powdered sugar and cocoa. Mix in water, one
teaspoon at a time, until you get a thin glaze. Pour over the still warm cake
slowly and allow it to seep into the crumb.
9.
Let icing harden 10 – 15 minutes before serving.
You can substitute
self-rising flour. If you do, use equal
amounts flour and omit both the baking soda.
It will change the final texture slightly.
If you do not have vinegar,
lemon juice can be used or it can be left out.
The rise will be less if left out, more like a thin brownie.
The water can be replaced
with coffee to bring out the flavor of the chocolate.
3/4 c. molasses
1/4 c. oil
1 1/4 c. flour
1 c. corn flour (process in
blender until fine)
1 c. milk
4 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves
1 c. raisins
Beat molasses and oil. Add
flours and milk, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and cloves, stirring just until
smooth. Add raisins. Pour into loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 60 minutes.
Eggless date cake; uses milk.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/228297/eggless-date-cake/
A collection of cakes with the eggs taken out:
https://www.allrecipes.com/egg-free-cake-recipes-8681357
2. Pasta and noodles for soup. Somebody on Bluesky said they have been doing this for a while.
https://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2023/01/24/homemade-egg-free-noodles/
3. Kugel traditionally uses noodles. Here's a potato kugel that is also gluten and dairy free and you can add smallfruit or grated apples or pears or chopped nuts to it.
Eggless Potato Kugel: just leave the eggs out of this recipe.
https://toriavey.com/wprm_print/passover-potato-kugel
4. Fried chicken usually uses a buttermilk batter. That's not kosher. For that and chicken nuggets, I used spiced egg to hold the matzo meal coating. Instead of that, use the batter for the fish in a fish and chips recipe, but use a fancy spice mix like chili powder, curry powder, garam masala, Montreal, Caribbean jerk, or "KFC" 11 spices. To make this gluten free, use rice or potato flour instead of wheat flour. You can also substitute potato STARCH for the flour.
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-are-kfcs-11-herbs-and-spices/
5. I love cauliflower in a spiced crust. Use a pakora batter, which you make thick for cauliflower or zucchini, and thin for spinach. It's already gluten-free because it uses chickpea flour, and it's dairy-free.
6. Cookies. Swap out butter and use yogurt, which you can make chain batches of with a dehydrator to cure it overnight.
https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/eggless-cookie-recipes/
6. In other posts, I pointed out that you can't make challah without eggs. You can use one less egg per batch.
7. Eggplant parmigiana. You can just layer the raw eggplant, cheese and sauce in your baking pan; you can also use zucchini this way. You can also drizzle the vegetable with oil and roast at 425 F for 15 minutes, then layer and bake. MUCH easier, much less fat because you don't fry the vegetables first, and still delicious. Gluten free.
8. Stuffed vegetables, aka farcis. I made stuffed green peppers the other day and the recipe wanted you to bind the filling with egg. I left out the egg and it tasted great, plus it was gluten free and dairy free. Here's a stuffed eggplant recipe that doesn't call for egg in the first place. If you can find a nice BIG zucchini, this works for that, too.
https://www.recipetineats.com/moroccan-baked-eggplant-with-beef/
9. Breakfast. Pancakes -- replace the egg(s) with 1/4 cup banana or apple, or with 1 tablespoon each of oil and water. Also replace any milk with yogurt. Otherwise -- fruit salad, oatmeal (get the old fashioned because you can't make cookies with the instant) and other hot cereals, scrapple as a side for your ham or corned beef, yogurt with granola and chopped nuts that you aren't allergic to.
We will get through this. In the meantime, we deserve good food.
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