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Is cake a sort of bread? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So according to Merriam Webster bread is: a usually baked and leavened food made of a mixture whose basic constituent is flour or meal

And cake is: A: a breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened B: a sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (such as baking powder)

And yet some people don't think that cake is bread.

What's your opinion?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe yeast is the thing?

In which case, cake isn't bread.

And also bread isn't bread, it's just a really thick beer.

But it doesn't have alcohol, so you'd need to add sugar.

Then beer is cake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I’ve never make a cake from dough. I’ve always make cake from batter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The Cube Rule of Food Identification

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yes. Flour, water, heat. That's it. Tortillas are bread. Cake is bread. Crackers are bread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

These comments could be part of an episode of Qi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

it's a doctrinal difference

also you could possibly look at something like gluten formation, but i suspect there's a gluteny cake out there as well as a glutenless bread

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[–] experiencersinternational 1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Not bread. Cake doesn't use yeast (leavened basically means using yeast). Bread does.

Cake uses eggs, bread doesn't.

Cake is expensive to buy or make. Bread isn't as bad.

I think we clearly know it's not bread. Back me up here someone. I'm the person being referred to in the OP btw.

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[–] Resol 1 points 5 months ago

Rye bread looks like chocolate cake. So... is bread a sort of cake?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

US bread taste like bread, it's soft and sugary.

I would turn it the other way breads are a sort of cake but more minimalist (water, flour, yeast, and a pinch of salt) and then there is some pimped bread which moves toward the cake, like when you add milk or even eggs

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