javachik, you can sub an equal amount of crisco for lard in any baking recipe; the flavor won't be the same, but the recipe will work. You can also sub butter, which gives better flavor, but tends to make things more brown and crisp. Not a bad thing, but something to be aware of and maybe compensate for when it comes to baking times.
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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 can't remember what the topic was, but I recently had a customer service experience where something was screwed up, obviously through no fault of the worker in front of me, and I was clear that I understood that, and the worker was pathetically grateful. I really wonder what is wrong with people sometimes.
Amazing, right?
A couple of times I've realized part-way through that the mistake was NOT on the part of the person helping me and have apologized profusely for getting cranky. They always seem shocked.
Hee! I am so dumb that I hadn't even thought of vegetable shortening....yum. That will work. Thanks!
Dudes, shortening triple-x-post. The holiday season is verily upon us.
The auto bailout passed.
The fish hats are terrific.
And I try to be nice to salespeople, unless they themselves are being difficult. Sunday I was at Starbucks and the woman ahead of me wanted some breakfast food, but she didn't like Starbucks' options - she wanted something done up specifically to her requirements. So I stood there while she dithered and asked about the ingredients of practically everything in the case. Then she'd ask for something and, when it turned out it wasn't something she wanted, go back to the case for another choice. When my turn came, the cashier adjusted the screen and the entire system crashed. She had to get it restarted and then redo my order (it was a cup of coffee, no special request, so not too complicated). I think she was glad to have me be patient ... especially since, by the time she finished with me, there were six people or so behind me.
They make a butter flavored Crisco, by the way.
javachik, did you know you can get butter-flavored Crisco? not as good as butter, but it avoids the brown and crispy situation.
Hee -- I was just about to mention the butter-flavor Crisco.
Hey did we know this about Google book search?
As part of their Book Search service, Google is now offering full text searching of certain magazines. They haven’t released a full listing of what magazines are available, but the examples they cite include Popular Science and Ebony. Poking around it myself, I’ve discovered that the full back-catalog of Baseball Digest Magazine is available, meaning that every page of every issue can be viewed (and searched) online for free. That’s a pretty sweet deal, especially considering their annual preview issues (check out the 1948 or 1962 or 1989 issues).
I wonder what other magazine archives are available. That's very cool for research.
I've used the butter-flavored Crisco to replace butter when making chocolate chip cookies and it comes out pretty well.