After becoming a Dreena Burton fan last year, I had to go back to the beginning and have a look at the everday vegan, Burton's first cookbook. At first I was slightly disappointed (I had been used to the format from 'vive le vegan') but soon got over that.
My first attempt was the blueberry orange cake which wasn't quite what I had in mind. Clearly I had used too big a pan and the cake was terribly flat (without eggs, it can be difficult to get cakes to rise and retain the same tender structure) I also found it far too sweet. The second recipe attempted was scones. I was slighlty surprised by the ingredients and texture. Traditional scones made vegan would take the form of flour, margarine and soy milk, rubbing the margarine into the flour, and adding the milk until it forms a dough.
These were very different to what I would call scones. Maybe it's one of those things that gets lost in translation. Like how in Australia, biscuits denotes something you dip in a cup of tea, while is America, they are like savoury scones, to be dunked in gravy.
