Cordelia ,'Beneath You'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I think of shortening as lard, but I think that's wrong.
At Kat n' lori's wedding, I think Kat tossed the bouquet, but I can't remember because Too Much Champagne and Too Much Buttercream Frosting made me pass out in a drunken sugar coma for 12 hours.
We did have a Gay Wedding Tree decorated with pink flamingos, though. I think that's the best beginning of a tradition, ever.
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
suet:beef::lard:pork
So where does tallow fit in?
Ahhhh... all the fats are becoming clear now. Clear and delicious.
Lard/shortening::butter/margarine, though shortening is a lot better a substitute for lard than margarine is for butter.
Margarine is essentially butter-flavored shortening (in that it's hydrogenated vegetable fat -- the hydrogenation makes it a solid at room temperature)
I've always thought shortening and suet were the same thing. Is that very wrong?
Suet is beef fat, lard is pork fat, shortening (in American cookbooks), is solid vegetable fat. It may be a more generic term in the UK, though.
I just downgraded my netflix to 1 movie at a time. I should have done that a long time ago.