Because it gives it more flavor and it gets you fat so that's why I don't eat it plus shortcut pastry SUCK by the way you might want to exercise after eating within 20 or 30 minutes
Fat is also needed to produce and protect hormones and it aids in the absorption and transportation around the body of vital fat-soluble nutrients and vitamins.
To enhance texture (i.e crumbly-ness), without browning the pastry (which butter does when it's cooked).
Fat and taste i think
Fat adds flavor and texture. Without fat it might crack
Partially hydrogenated oils are very bad for you and are banned in some European countries; they contribute more than saturated fats to heart disease.Coconut oil has some health properties; the lauric acid contributes to heart health.Pick fresh unsaturated fats instead of animal fat or partially hydrogenated oils. Coconut oils and avocado oils are two vegetable based saturated fats that are good for you.There is a lot of evidence that excessive saturated fat contributes to heart disease and cancer.
Any kind of shortening (fat) can be used for making pastry. Butter makes a melt-in-the-mouth delicious pastry.
Butter, margarine and vegetable oil, or solid vegetable fats like Kremelta or Crisco. Lard (animal fat) is not used so much nowadays though may still be found in pastry. Coconut fat may be used too.
storing fat
Yes. Vegetable oils are vegetable fat. If you want it in a solid form, you can buy vegetable shortening.
About 1/3 of the fat in vegetable oil is saturated fat.
Suet crust pastry is an old style pastry rather than using just vegetable oils and things, this actually uses hard processed animal fat, if you like old pies from the 60s and early 70s in rural areas, you need suet to get that taste. Works great for meat pot pies, and the crust tastes good enough you'll have everyone wondering what you are doing differently.
There is really no reason, it just is in a pastry because you need oil to make it
Because suet is pork fat. It is the hard fat around the kidneys in pigs.
=yes vegetable oil does contain unsaturated fat=