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?

  • GulbuddinHekmatyar@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Cake was bread historically

    I think all other dough-based dishes derive from bread really, since I believe it's the most basis dough recipe ye can make...

    Nowadays, my definition of modern cake = bread + defined-sweetness + fluffiness and softness

    My proof that cake was bread; look at pound cake, one of modern cake's forerunners, and tell me no one thought and baked it, thinking "how about bread, but more deluxe?"