Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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