Shortening..the netherlands??
kaye

08/03/02 		Another problem :)..well, sort of..coz I live here in the Netherlands and we dont have crisco here, so whenever a recipe calls for a shortening I dont know what to use -- actually, i simply use veg. oil..oopss. I know :) coz it's only recently that i've learned that shortening is a solid one. Help! does anybody here knows what kind of shortening I can use here in the netherlands? --- there's a solid fat here that we use in cooking (for frying meats) but I dunno if that's the one..it's not butter.

thanks..hope somebody can reply soon..

ellen
ellenskitchen2017@gmail.com
09/21/02 		Him sorry for the delay on your question. Crisco is solid vegetable shortening, it isn't too health and what I have been using lately for baking is 3/4 butter and 1/4 vegetable oil, beaten together very well before I add it to the other ingredients. On other people's recipes, I usually try redicing the hard fat about 1/3, also.
Ashanty
yomibanke@yahoo.com
04/21/04 		Dear Ellen,
what is Solid vegetable shortening, is it like buter of margarine. Am confuse
Thanks
Ashanty
yomibanke@yahoo.com
04/21/04 		Dear Ellen,
What exactly is Solid Vegetable Shortening, is it the same like butter or margarine. pls provide example.
Am confuse, hope u answer soon.
Thanks
Ashanty
yomibanke@yahoo.com
04/21/04 		Dear Ellen,
What exactly is Solid Vegetable Shortening, is it the same like butter or margarine. pls provide example.
Am confuse, hope u answer soon.
Thanks
ellen

04/21/04 		It's callede Crisco here- a white product made from vegetable oil, 100% fat. Margarine is only 85-90% fat, so you have to use more. Hope this helps.
Harry
htthames@bellsouth.net
10/19/04 		In many parts of the world, people use a rendered fat product called "lard". This is when the solids are liquified and cooked out of the fat of the animal, made into a liquid and poured into cans as a liquid. Upon cooling it becomes a solid called lard. The vegetable product is a white solid and normally called shortening in the U.S. (Crisco is a brand name). Lard is a by product of the rendering process and was used extensively prior to the "discovery" of vegetable shortening. It has a very different taste and is not the best ingredient to use (hi fat content)!
a l y s s a

11/28/04 		hey!..I need to know why "shortening" is often instead of fat...HELP MEE
ellen

11/30/04 		Vegetable shortening doesn't get rancid and is easy to store, so has become a very popular kitchen fat. ALso, though it is not nearly as healthy a fat as vegetable oil, it does not raise blood cholesterol as fast as animal fat does. Does that answer your question?