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What is shortening?
Crisco, not lard.
Shortening isn't lard, necessarily. Like Crisco is shortening and it's solid vegetable oil.
ETA is ALWAYS solid veggie oil
I think of shortening as lard, but I think that's wrong.
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As other people have said, shortening is not lard.
OK, this site [link] says it's anything that shortens your dough, but what people in the US mean when they say it is vegetable shortening.
Lard:shortening::butter:margarine, though shortening is a lot better a substitute for lard than margarine is for butter.
I've always thought shortening and suet were the same thing. Is that very wrong? I know you can get vegetarian suet now, and it's increasingly difficult to get the original meat kind.
Oh, cool, crisco makes shortening without the trans fat. I feel better about making the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, now.
suet:beef::lard:pork