My #2 stepson is visiting with wife and 3 daughters. The youngest of the 3 girls, aged 6, has severe allergies to many things but the worst ones are dairy products and eggs (recently, she grabbed her lunchbox from a shelf in kindergarten. Some milk was spilled on the handle, from someone else's lunchbox. Her hand blistered immediately. That kind of allergy). The adults had been sitting around the supper table (after the small fry left to view a Disney film from my stash) talking about things Sara can and cannot eat, with my DH suggesting this and that, and Elizabeth (their mother) explaining why that was taboo also...
To cut to the chase... :)
What Elizabeth is looking for *the most* is a recipe for eggless, milkless, butterless, etc cookies, so that the child can have a cookie once in a while, like her sisters do... They've found substitutes for waffles (there's a -- smaller -- problem with wheat, also, but we've progressed from rice only, to soy flour and milk <g>) and for all sorts of other things, like ice cream, but none for cookies. Old Polish recipes are no good; all baked goods have butter, cream or eggs in them (and half the time, the yummiest ones have all three <g>)... Using egg substitute is no good either; her allergy to the albumen is stronger than to the yolk...
So I thought I'd appeal to the collective knowledge of the Gentle Spiders... Do any of you know of a recipe for cookies which doesn't require any dairy products or eggs? Sara *can* eat chocolate (as long as it's not milk chocolate) and Elizabeth can get dark chocolate chips; given a "good" dough base, something could be cobbled up...
I may try making a batch of the sesame seed thingies (from Carole Lassak's recipe; Sue's had butter in it <g>) tomorrow and see if it'll "fly". But those are not *cookies*, strictly speaking... I wonder if any of you are vegan vegetarians or know a vegan, and could find out what *they* do to appease their sweet tooth...
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