Anise oil is what's called an "essential oil" that is typically recovered by steam distillation from a spice, is highly flavored, and costs several bucks an ounce, while "vegetable oil" usually refers to oils that are cold-pressed from oily but mostly bland seeds (cottonseed, rapeseed, sunflower seeds, corn) and are much less expensive.
If you're asking if it's vegetarian/vegan ... yes. If you're asking if you can substitute it for vegetable oil in a recipe, I wouldn't.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anise Anise, like fennel, contains anethole, a phytoestrogen. Anise is a mild antiparasitic and its leaves can be used to treat digestive problems, relieve toothache, and its essential oil to treat lice and scabies. Anise can be used to relieve menstrual cramps.
There are a number of different stores that sell anise oil. These include Walmart and Amazon. It is also sold at health food stores.
The traditional recipe calls for anise oil, so if you want to omit it then I would substsitute equal amounts of a vegetable or other light oil, perhaps canola. Except for taste, the cookie recipe should be otherwise unaffected. As long as you change no other ingredients, the cookies should bake and look as they normally would.
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Vegetable oil can be made out of several different plants, including soybean, peanuts, canola, and sunflower. So while all sunflower oil is vegetable oil, not all vegetable oil is sunflower oil.
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vegetable oil, is a compound because it forms a liquid.
Ammonia dissolves better in motor oil than in vegetable oil because motor oil is more immiscible than vegetable oil. Also, motor oil molecules are more non-polar than vegetable oil.
Yes you can. Substitute 2 teaspoons of ground anise seed for 1 teaspoon of anise extract.