Share some other items random that have diaappeared or become super expensive, if you like.
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Share some other items random that have diaappeared or become super expensive, if you like.
Couldn't find shortening this weekend for pie for the FIL. Ending up going with lard instead. But had to go to another store for that.
Lard is the original shortening. I prefer a lard/butter piecrust. Lard for crispiness, butter for flavor.
Yeah I had no idea...the first recipe I found a few years ago had shortening...but then I had to try to find it...And they had lard and I saw it had a pie recipe on it and say awww fuck, I'll get that. Because I personally had bad feelings about shortening just because it seems like trash, like corn starch, corn meal etc. I don't think anyone in my family made a pie crust in front of me so I could see what they used when I was a kid. My pies came out amazing today. Made a cherry and an apple. FIL thoroughly enjoyed the cherry. I was worried it would taste porky...as my taste and smell are still fucked after 2+ years of covid crap...but it was great.
yeah shortening us hydrogenated 'vegetable oils' soybean oil, palm oils (seed oil).
Yep it's always with the shitty oils so I figured without even looking at the ingredients.