Shortening is simply solid culinary fat like butter, coconut fat, lard, margarine or kremelta which is added to pastry (or biscuits like shortbread - "Mama's little baby loves shortenin' bread").
The more fat that is added in proportion to the flour the shorter (and more crumbly) the pastry will be - but it won;t hold together successfully unless you add an egg or water as well.
it was iriginated to shorten the term emotional.
The abbreviation sk8 mean on craigslist means Skate. The term sk8 is a computer skater slang used to shorten the word when typing.
Contractile proteins is the term that identifies the proteins that allow muscles to shorten or lengthen.
usually your reigns, to shorten them
Contractile proteins is the term that identifies the proteins that allow muscles to shorten or lengthen.
it is a name to shorten Danielle
To shorten as if by cutting off
Contracture or contraction
No, it doesn't.
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Depends what you mean. At Waterloo, we use the term "eng" to shorten engineering, But licensed engineers can write P.Eng after their name, too.