PENMART01 wrote:

> Reg writes:
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>>PENMART01 wrote:
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>>>Whaddidya think, baking didn't exist prior to the invention of hydroge=
nated
>>>vegetable shortening...duh. Friggin' lard brained idiot.
>>
>>That's not what he said. He said that in the USA it has become common
>>to use the term "shortening" when referring to vegetable shortening.
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> Are you ****ing retarded? Can't you follow the thread? The OP asked a=
bout WHY
> the term shortening, you ****ing nincompoop.

Excuse me, you ****ing nincompoop. Just read the subject line. It'll=20
tell you what the original question was. It wasn't about the term=20
shortening, it was about the purpose for shortening.

HTH

Pastorio

> So what. That doesn't preclude all other fats from being called shorte=
ning...
> and in fact in commercial bakeries Crisco (hydogenated vegetable shorte=
ning -
> solid 'vegetable' shortening as averse to solid 'animal' shortening) is=
rarely
> used in baking anymore (was a WW thingie when solid animal fats were in=
short
> supply... usta be lotsa brands but not anymore), in bakeries it's used =
mostly
> for icings... instead lard, butter, and generic vegetable oil (liquid) =
are the
> default shortenings of professional bakers. Just because Crisco is cal=
led
> shortening means nothing, it's rarely used as shortening per se, mostly=
it's
> used for frying... when the Crisco folks realized people were using the=
product
> for frying they came out with Crisco oil. Shortening is a baking term,=
and in
> culinary parlance shortening means one and ONLY one thing, ANY fat used=
to
> shorten gluten strands.
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> M-W
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> short=B7en=B7ing
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> Function: noun
> Date: 1538
> 1 : the action or process of making or becoming short; specifically : t=
he
> dropping of the latter part of a word so as to produce a new and shorte=
r word
> of the same meaning=20
> <STRONG>2 : an edible fat used to shorten baked goods</STRONG>
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