I’ve wanted to see about “veganizing” some of the Joy of Cooking recipes for a while. This morning, I made my first attempt and am calling it a total success. I don’t think I can print the recipe here, but I used the “corn meal pancake” recipe and made substitutes for all the animal products. Instead of milk I used unsweetened vanilla soy milk, in place of the egg, I used one Tablespoon well-ground flax seeds shaken up a jar with two Tablespoons additional soy milk and one Tablespoon water. Vegan margarine instead of butter and voila, it’s vegan. And still REALLY good. Nicely buttery. I used canola oil spray for the skillet and re-sprayed between each batch.
If you are curious about eating fewer eggs (I was spurred on to do so after reading the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Saffran Foer) and making substitutions in your baking recipes, the flax seed and water/soy milk combination works really well.