Earth Balance also makes
vegetable shortening which is great, but otherwise you can use crisco for the shortening.
Not exact matches
It is made with
vegetable shortening instead of butter,
which keeps the cookies wonderfully thick (cookies with a high butter content spread out very thin).
That recipe also used
vegetable shortening instead of butter,
which was in short supply.
On the other hand, if we look at replacing unhealthful fats (
shortening, margarine and hydrogenated oils in general, as well as (in my opinion) most of the
vegetable oils sold at the supermarket) with coconut oil we can anticipate reaping the maximum benefits
which it offers.
Coconut oil can be substituted for
vegetable oil or
shortening in recipes
which call for either.
I would have preferred to use palm
shortening such as Spectrum Organics palm
shortening, but the only
shortening I can find in my neck o» the woods is «all -
vegetable»
shortening such as Crisco...
Which is full of soy.
Partially hydrogenated fats,
which include margarines,
shortenings,
shortening oils, and partially hydrogenated
vegetable oils, are even worse in that they go through the same process, but it is not brought to completion and so the final product contains trans - fats, in addition to many (dozens!!)
Highly saturated tropical oils do not contribute to heart disease but have nourished healthy populations for millennia.72 It is a shame we do not use these oils for cooking and baking — the bad rap they have received is the result of intense lobbying by the domestic
vegetable oil industry.73 Red palm oil has a strong taste that most will find disagreeable — although it is used extensively throughout Africa — but clarified palm oil,
which is tasteless and white in color, was formerly used as
shortening and in the production of commercial French fries, while coconut oil was used in cookies, crackers and pastries.
Previously in the US, we also used to incorporate a lot of lard into our daily diets, but with the notion (from our government) that pig fat is too «saturated» and unhealthy, we shifted to the use of hydrogenated plant oils (aka.,
vegetable shortening)
which actually made us sicker, fatter, and more diseased.
Partially hydrogenated margarines and
shortenings are even worse for you than the highly refined
vegetable oils from
which they are made because of chemical changes that occur during the hydrogenation process.
Unnatural fats, like margarine,
shortenings and spreads are formed during the process of partial hydrogenation,
which turns liquid
vegetable oil into a solid fat.