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?

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    I'd say cakes are all bread, but not all bread is cake. Likewise, I'd say omelettes are a type of egg dish, as are plain scrambled eggs, but not all egg dishes are one of those.

    If you kept to Western cuisine you could argue bread as a distinct category both within "homogeneous baked goods" or something, but then ingera (for example) would probably end up being a cake, and that's not quite right. It's more important that bread include all solid grain-based staples the world over than that it exclude Western cake, IMO.