this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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I Didn’t Have Eggs
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I feel like you should at least have the ingredients that are in the name of the dish.
Crab Rangoon begs to differ, but that is an extreme example
It blows my mind that there is no raccoon in this dish...
Welsh rarebit has entered the chat.
Tartar sauce enters the room.
I forgot about cream of tartar and thought you were a cannibal for a second.
I thought they was a lamb if they from Tartary
There is also the dish "tartare", which I would be really surprised if they didn't share some entomology with the region/people and the claims involved.
Iirc, it’s named after the concept of mongols putting a piece of tough meat under their saddles and riding on it all day to tenderize it. That’s actually where the name for tartar sauce comes from, because it was an accompaniment to the dish.
Egg cream, too.
Lobster sauce sends its regards.
Pumpkin spice says hello
Monkey gland sauce has entered the chat.
Monkey bread, too
Got some bad news about spotted dick for my fellow fucked up phallus fans.
What about oyster crackers?
Theseus' recipe. How many ingredients can you replace before it's a different dish?
In this case one
How can you call out a sail boat when it's got no sails?!
🤷 It's for everything else. Why isn't it sailing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Oak_Tree
To be fair in MOST things baking substituting some banana, pumpkin, applesauce, etc. for egg will work fine (and impart some flavor so, pick which one works for what you're doing) but in an uhh egg custard.... well... That is a bit different. (Really I would probably just use like potato starch to get something that would set correctly, but you would need to adjust flavor if you wanted to get it close since that won't give egg flavor.)
In recipes that have egg as the star ingredient I add just a teeny pinch of kala namak, it adds a bit of the background sulfur flavor. I'm allergic to egg whites, but honestly I'm not sure I'd even bother with an egg custard. There are plenty of alternative desserts that dont need to be a vegan dish that's 80% starch lol