Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > Makes Great Chocolate Chip Cookies!! > So THAT'S what I'm missing ... I buy the chocolate chips in the US, the cane brown sugar ... and every time I run into this "shortening" I've been using margarine (well, actually butter ... as long as my wife isn't looking). But they just don't turn out the way I want them too. Daniel > Gene > > > > > Daniel Ridings > <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.n To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > o> cc: > Sent by: Subject: RE: [Leica] OT (of course) Crisco > owner-leica-users@mejac.palo > -alto.ca.us > > > 11/11/2003 09:38 AM > Please respond to > leica-users > > > > > > > There one more thing I can't figure out. It's unhealthy you say ... I > thought that by definition, all unhealthy things were good and this Crisco > sounds like ... a strange brew. I remember how it looks ... a white paste > in a tin-can, but I don't remember it being good. So if it's not good, it > must be healthy ... or something like that. > > Daniel > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Kit McChesney wrote: > > > Actually, shortening is pretty darn un-healthy, because it's a > hydrogenated > > vegetable oil. Vegetable "shortening" comes from oil that has been > infused > > with hydrogen to make it hard and stiff at room temperature. If healthy > > depended on something's being a vegetable-based product, then we'd have > no > > problem with all the trans-fatty stuff that's out there now. Shortening > was > > developed to make it so that folks who liked to lard could do it more > > conveniently. Shortening has a longer shelf life than pig or beef fat. > But > > it behaves very similarly to lard, both in cooking and what it becomes in > > your arteries. > > > > If an oil is unadulterated, and is higher in monounsaturates (like olive, > > for instance), then you're talking healthy. Also, any oil that is hard, > or > > solid, at room temperature, is not good for your body. That's why all the > > palm and coconut oils aren't good. They get stiff and solid at room > > temperature (pretty sticky on the inside of your innards, too). Lots of > junk > > food is full of coconut oil and hydrogenated fats. Take a look at a bag > of > > your favorite mass-produced snack chip. > > > > There are some healthy "shortenings" on the market now, one of them made > by > > Spectrum Naturals, that are not hydrogenated. If you want healthy > > shortening, you have to use one of those. Otherwise, the end result isn't > > all that different from lard. > > > > Happy eating! > > > > Kit > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of > > grduprey@rockwellcollins.com > > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:49 AM > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT (of course) Crisco > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > -- > 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