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Monday, December 21, 2015

Holiday Egglessness

Chicken eggs are an allergen unto The Precious and the ducks don't wanna lay in the winter, so I thought I'd get all creative with the holiday baking.  I have learned that a half cup of applesauce can take the place of an egg in some recipes.
Turns out, applesauce can also substitute for sugar and shortening/butter/oil.  Luckily for me, I still have two hundred and ninety-eight quart jars of home canned applesauce from a couple years ago when our two little apple trees declared their Best Year Ever and I dehydrated apples and froze sliced peeled apples in cinnamon sauce and canned apple juice and apple sauce and apple pie filling and cinnamon apples until I cried and hated apples.
Thus did I come up with evil plan number one: Fill all my holiday platters and bowls with applesauce and call it good.  My scheme was vetoed by The Precious because he's just not an applesauce fan.  (Hater.)
Evil plan number two: Bake all the holiday goodies with applesauce in place of the eggs, and NOT substitute for sugars and fats.  So far it's successful, and I even finally learned how to use that lonely second-hand cookie press from the back of the bottom of the least-used drawer in the house.
The Precious approves of the baking, but has expressed some limitations regarding the substitution of applesauce for eggs.
No bacon and applesauce for breakfast.
No applesauce and hashbrowns.
No over-easy applesauce.
No scrambled applesauce.
No applesauce McMuffins.
No deviled applesauce.
The Precious has declared that even Jeremy Renner would call these sugar cookies and gingerbread cutouts applesaucellent.

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