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Can you buy vegetable fat?
Yes. Vegetable oils are vegetable fat. If you want it in a solid form, you can buy vegetable shortening.
Is Trex vegetable shortening vegetarian?
Yes, it contains 100% vegetable fat.
Can you use shortening in place of lard?
No. Lard is animal fat and shortening is vegetable oil that has been hydrogenated.
Does vegetable oil shortening contain pork?
No. It is just vegetable oil. I don't think animal fat shortening is even available except for straight lard.
How does shortening help bread rise?
shortening adds lipids or fats to tenderize the flour.
What is a shortening?
A shortening is a cooking fat that is solid or semisolid at room temperature. These include butter, lard, hydrogenated margarines (transfats), and hydrogenated vegetable oils (transfats).
Do you like lard?
Several groups of people don't eat lard. Lard is made from pig fat. This prevents vegetarians, vegans, Muslims, and Jews from eating products made with lard. A good substitute is vegetable oil shortening.
What is hydrogenated vegetable shortening?
A solid fat made from vegetable oils, such as soybean and cottonseed oil. Although made from oil, shortening has been chemically transformed into a solid state through hydrogenation.
What basic ingredient performs shortens gluten strands?
Shortening is called so because it shortens the gluten strands in flour. Shortening is any kind of solid fat, i.e. vegetable shortening (like Crisco), lard, butter, or margarine.
Is vegetable shortening and shortening the same?
Not all shortening is oil, but all oil (consumable oil, that is) is shortening. Shortening is another word for fat used in cooking, especially baking. The most common shortenings are butter and margarine and, to a lesser degree, Crisco. Other oils can be used, too. (And some low-fat recipes substitute apple sauce or prune butter for traditional fat-based shortenings.)
Is vegetable oil shortening?
No
How many grams of fat in a teaspoon of hydrogenated shortening?
Shortening is fat.
