Ahhhh... all the fats are becoming clear now. Clear and delicious.
It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.
Buffy ,'Empty Places'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
Jars - Mar 28, 2006 11:26:50 am PST #6821 of 10001
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
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I just downgraded my netflix to 1 movie at a time. I should have done that a long time ago.
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.]
Jessica - Mar 28, 2006 11:39:40 am PST #6825 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
(Defining tallow vs suet killed the thread? Y'all are tougher than that!)
brenda m - Mar 28, 2006 11:42:54 am PST #6826 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Shortening is supposed to make flakier pie crusts, but IME the trade-off in taste (from using butter) isn't worth it. I'd guess it's the same with cookies, so I'd only want to use it in cookies that had pretty strong flavors. Plus the butter is really much better for you. And not, you know, gross.
msbelle - Mar 28, 2006 11:43:06 am PST #6827 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am just crashing over here.
Allyson - Mar 28, 2006 11:44:24 am PST #6828 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Quick! Eat an orange!
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2006 11:45:43 am PST #6829 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My car won't start. I am near, but not AT work. There are no dealerships near here. My onsite work day may be done.
Gudanov - Mar 28, 2006 11:46:53 am PST #6830 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
That sucks ita.