Yes
Yes and yes.
Yes, for one cup of shortening use one cup of butter.
Vegetable Shortening
Sometimes it is used as a substitute for butter.
It would be difficult to make brownies without eggs. If you didn't have chocolate, you could make a blonde brownie or more of a coffee cake with cinnamon. If you don't have butter, you can substitute shortening, oil, or applesauce if you want to go healthier. However, you need eggs to make your brownies raise. You can use egg substitute, such as Egg Beaters, but that is really your only other option.
A substitute for Bisquik can be made with flour, baking powder, salt, and oil, shortening, or butter.
Use the same amount of butter as you would shortening. In bread, a tablespoon of butter can be used instead of a tablespoon of shortening. The same amount of canola oil is even healthier.
The same amount.
use butter flavored Crisco
Vegetable oil and butter are two types of shortening. All fats and oils are shortening, and can be substituted for each other, but this will affect the flavour and texture of the food, as some shortenings have stronger and different flavours, and also have different melting points.
it should be a little less, however, if you MUST substitute butter, you are better off to use margarine, you will find that it tastes better than shortening.
Margarine, like butter, is a shortening agent; applesauce won't replace margarine in recipes calling for shortening.