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

submitted 4 months ago by Binette@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If gluten is required, then gf bread isn't bread. But anyone who's eaten gf bread would call it bread. Different but still bread.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if I've ever had GF bread, so I had to look up how it's made. I wondered how the bread would have the proper structure to rise without a gluten matrix, and it seems I was on to something. Reading up on it a bit, gums and starches are used to replace the function of the missing gluten. So while GF bread has no gluten, it's still made with a gluten replacement, and the same function is required for proper results.

If we change my qualifier to bread typically having a deliberately developed structural matrix with high elasticity, it covers wheat and GF breads. It still is fairly universal we want chewy breads and non-chewy cakes.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

bread typically having a deliberately developed structural matrix with high elasticity,

Cake fits into this, I'd say.