Thank you for posting this. As we are a vegetarian family as well. Kosher
Gelitin is from
kosher animals or fish. I find it repulsive to use kosher gelitin in desert
products, or my
breads that we are eating with aour Veg'n meals (knowing it may be from
animals).

A year or so back there was a real controversy with Vegan marshmallows., it
turned out
Emes gelitin the so called "vegan" geliti (that was also "Kosher") supplier had
been
scamming the public...it was tested and was indeed from animals. A few companies
folded
because their products were made using out sources of this gelitin product.

My issue with gelitin and GF products is, that supposedly some of the best
recipes (Bette
Hagman, and someone else who I cannot think of right now who I believe IS
Jewish) use
gelitin as the strength and body to bind their GF breads and bready products.

I guess Kosher gelitin is ok if you indeed are meat eaters...but it puts those
of us who
don't and are GF in a bind (no pun intended) and limits the versatility and
quality of our
homemade products.

I do have agar from an asian market (not powder form) and it almost looks like a
big red
(artificial color???) loofah...has anyone else seen this?

I am not even sure how to use this, or trust that it is 100% agar being that it
has this
artificial red color, like red Jello has. How can it be all natural, or all
agar?

I have seen it in a clear or whitish color in this form (like a loofah) but it
was not available
this last trip I made to the asian market.

Does anyone know how to use this form?

Do you break it and boil it? If so, how do you know how much that is as compared
to
powdered unflavored gelitin?

Any and all input is appreciated!!! Thank you.





--- In allergicjews@yahoogroups.com, Jennifer Stahl <meg-a-bytes@...> wrote:
> In my area (Germany) the only thing I can find that is in any way
> comparable is Agar-Agar. I use it in the same amount of gelatin
> called for. One of the reasons behind my using it is that it is
> vegan, and I don't have to worry about the actual source (a kind of
> seaweed) like I have had before with gelatin...
>
>
>
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