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When baking pastry, keep fats like butter or shortening very cold Teresa Shurilla , pastry chef and program director at the University of Hawai'i Maui College Culinary Arts program, told BI that ...
Shortening is any fat that is a solid at room temperature and is used to make crumbly pastry and other food products. The idea of shortening dates back to at least the 18th century, well before the invention of modern, shelf-stable vegetable shortening. [1] In the earlier centuries, lard was the primary ingredient used to shorten dough. [2]
Spry was a brand of vegetable shortening produced by Lever Brothers starting in 1936. It was a competitor for Procter & Gamble's Crisco, and through aggressive marketing through its mascot Aunt Jenny had reached 75 percent of Crisco's market share.
Vegetable shortenings were developed in the early 1900s, which made it possible to use vegetable-based fats in baking and in other uses where solid fats were called for. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, though fictional, portrayed men falling into rendering vats and being sold as lard, which generated negative publicity.
Bring about 2 inches water to a boil in a saucepan or the bottom of a double boiler; remove from heat. Combine chocolate and shortening in a heat-proof bowl or in the top of double boiler. Set bowl over hot water and let stand, stirring occasionally with a flexible spatula, until melted and smooth, about 15 minutes.
1. Preheat the oven to 475°. Position a rack in the upper third of the oven. In a large bowl, whisk the 2 cups of flour with the salt, baking powder and baking soda. Using a pastry blender, cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Using your fingers, rub in the sliced butter, leaving large flakes of coated butter.
A significant use of tallow is for the production of shortening.It is also one of the main ingredients of the Native American food pemmican.With a smoke point of 480 °F (249 °C), tallow is traditionally used in deep frying and was preferred for this use until the rise in popularity of plant oils for frying.
Fried chicken, brownies from a box and stir-fried veggies—very different foods that, nevertheless, share a common ingredient: vegetable oil. Its omnipresence might suggest otherwise, but don’t ...