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.
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Jesse - Mar 28, 2006 11:18:32 am PST #6815 of 10001
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Frankenbuddha - Mar 28, 2006 11:20:21 am PST #6816 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Lard:shortening::butter:margarine, though shortening is a lot better a substitute for lard than margarine is for butter.
Jars - Mar 28, 2006 11:20:38 am PST #6817 of 10001
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.
Allyson - Mar 28, 2006 11:23:13 am PST #6818 of 10001
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Oh, cool, crisco makes shortening without the trans fat. I feel better about making the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, now.
DXMachina - Mar 28, 2006 11:24:34 am PST #6819 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
suet:beef::lard:pork
Frankenbuddha - Mar 28, 2006 11:25:36 am PST #6820 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
suet:beef::lard:pork
So where does tallow fit in?
Jars - Mar 28, 2006 11:26:50 am PST #6821 of 10001
Ahhhh... all the fats are becoming clear now. Clear and delicious.
Jessica - Mar 28, 2006 11:26:50 am PST #6822 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
msbelle - Mar 28, 2006 11:27:20 am PST #6823 of 10001
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Jessica - Mar 28, 2006 11:27:59 am PST #6824 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So where does tallow fit in?
Suet, IIRC, specifically refers to the fat that sits on top of the cow's kidneys. Tallow comes from somewhere else, but I'd have to Google to find out where.
[edit -- okay, Google tells me that tallow is clarified suet.]