RE: [Leica] OT (of course) Crisco

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Mama's little baby loves shortenin,' shortenin,' Mama's little baby
loves shortenin' bread.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel
Ridings
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:39 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT (of course) Crisco


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:

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> Crisco is a Vegetable Shortening and is actually not too bad for 
> cooking healthy.
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>                       Mark Rabiner
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> Sonny Carter wrote:
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> > Hello Daniel,
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Maybe you can use reindeer fat up there.
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> > Sonny
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Portland, Oregon USA
> http://www.rabinergroup.com
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