Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's the word "shortening" that gets me. What is shortening? Margarine is a vegetable fat, is it a shortening? Oh well, I've gotten enough answers that I know I can use a good quality oil or just plain old animal fat. Thanks, Daniel On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 grduprey@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > > > > > Crisco is a Vegetable Shortening and is actually not too bad for cooking > healthy. > > gene > > > > > Mark Rabiner > <mark@rabinergroup.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent by: cc: > owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: Re: [Leica] OT (of course) Crisco > -alto.ca.us > > > 11/10/2003 05:08 PM > Please respond to > leica-users > > > > > > > Sonny Carter wrote: > > > > Hello Daniel, > > > > You can use bacon drippings or lard in place, in fact for some things > > lard is really better than crisco because it heat more without > > burning. In most of these recipes, a good vegetable oil will do fine. > > > > The main function it has in breads is to make a pleasant browning, I > > think. Also makes it easier to get out of the cast iron skillet that > > is almost an absolute necessity to cornbread. > > > > Maybe you can use reindeer fat up there. > > > > Sonny > > > Isn't Crisco's main job to be cheap? > I think to make Fried Chicken in anything else the oil would cost more > than the chicken! > No way am I going to reuse any of that stuff. > Mark Rabiner > > In the yuppie health food store down the street they have high end > vegetarian Crisco packaged the same way. Won't kill you anywhere near as > fast or as painfully. > > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html