My wife uses canned liquid from chickpeas as substitute for egg whites. You need to add sugar, cream of tarter, vanilla or almond extract and beat until stiff peaks but she makes all sorts of desserts is way.
For more forgiving baked goods like quick breads a flax egg is fine, Ener-g egg replacer has been around since forever and is great for other baked goods like cakes and such. You use a tiny amount so one box lasts for almost ever. Bobās red mill also makes an egg replacer for baking which i havenāt tried yet (since i still have at least a year worth off ener-g left! ) but i trust bobās with everything for baking. http://www.ener-g.com/egg-replacer.html
A mucilage is what things like flax and okra produce. Starch can be used to make a mucilage too. Iāve tried corn starch and tapioca starch, it takes around a tablespoon per cup of water for that consistency, or you can make it thicker, like papeda, by adding twice as much starch. It has to be stirred into the unheated water until blended (which looks like milk), then heated and stirred continuously until it thickens (gelatinizes), which is at around 170Ā°F. The tapioca starch is better for refrigerating or freezing as a mucilage, because the cornstarch will separate from some of the water when chilled (unless it is āmodified cornstarchā). By the way, googling āegg substitute starchā will list others that are used for this. I havenāt really used it this way, but itās obviously similar when you see a clear thickened liquid like that.
That post was created too long ago. It can no longer be edited or deleted. āoh excuse meā¦ whatās the point of that? It always happens after I wrote something else, not before, so I think itās designed to pull the rug out from under me.
Where was I? Well I guess if you were using applesauce, then maybe that was for a yolk replacement, while the mucilage would be for an eggwhite consistency. Not sure though, Iāve never really baked with eggs, so I have no basis for comparison.
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