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kingklash wrote:All right people! Who's got a good brownie recipe?

How about Gingerbread? Will that do?

• 1/3 cup Shortening (Vegetable Oil OK substitute)
  3/4 cup Brown sugar
  2 eggs - beaten
  1 cup Molasses (dark) (Treacle for you European folks!)
  2 cups Flour
  1 tsp Cinnamon
  1 tsp Ginger
  1 tsp Baking Soda dissolved in:
  1 cup Hot (boiling) water (to help melt the shortening
  
  Cream sugar and shortening (or veg oil), beat in eggs.
  Add the hot water/soda, mix, add molasses, mix.
  Add flour and beat.
  
  Well greased pan in 350F/180C oven, not too close to burner. 45-50 minutes -- check with toothpick

Enjoy! Not responsible for tight pants afterwards.

kingklash wrote:All right people! Who's got a good brownie recipe?

The new/old tradition is to look on Twitter for suggestions, under the topic #brownies

All the tofu talk is making me think of Everybody Loves Raymond:

Here it is from another angle:

illiad wrote: BUT it is mostly for lactose intolerant people...
The only reason Vegans hate cheese, is rennet is used in its production.. so you can get 'vegetarian cheese' that uses something else to curdle the milk into cheese.

It only gets *really* desperate when they try to make tofu look like sausages or bacon... If you 'consciously object' to meat, WHY do you want a 'look alike' ???

I hate to ruin this for you Illiad, but the use of rennet is only part of why they hate cheese. I believe you are thinking of vegetarians in your statement. They allow themselves the use of products like milk. A true vegan will not consume any food that comes from animal production, so milk is out of the question since it was produced by an animal. It is completely an ethical sticking point to them.

Mark N: so we have more totally crazy people....
vegans face trial after death of baby fed only on breast milk

Tofu is one of those foods where how good it is depends greatly on the skill of the cook. And from personal experience, most cooks don't seem to be all that skilled at using it. . .

Nutrition for Castela would be rather odd to work out. Many of the vitamins that we depend on plants to provide for us, she might be able to produce for herself. And much that we can produce for ourselves she would need to gain from external sources (if she even needed them at all). Plus, chemicals in plants that don't affect us or that affect us in one way could very well do odd things to her; compounds that stunt the growth of plants could just be flavourings to humans. Who knows what eating something such as tofu or chocolate or ice-cream might do to Castela. Caffeine might have no results at all, while collagen keeps her on edge all night long.

illiad wrote:Mark N: so we have more totally crazy people....
vegans face trial after death of baby fed only on breast milk

Three and a half years later, there's no obvious follow-up anywhere online. Apparently only the initial reports were considered newsworthy. Yay for sensationalist journalism!