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Shortening versus Butter in Homemade Biscuits
On Jul 28, 9:06*am, Wayne Boatwright >
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> On Tue 28 Jul 2009 05:59:12a, Jean B. told us...
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> > Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> >> On Tue 28 Jul 2009 05:22:07a, Jean B. told us...
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> >>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> >>>> On Sun 26 Jul 2009 08:24:53p, Paul M. Cook told us...
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> >>>>> "Damaeus" > wrote in message
> om...
> >>>>>> I accidentally posted this first to rec.food-cooking....here's a
> >>>>>> post for this group:
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> >>>>>> I like biscuits now and then, and I got the itch to have some a
> >>>>>> while back when I was watching the Food Network and saw Tyler
> >>>>>> Florence's version. *He shocked me when he said to use vegetable
> >>>>>> shortening, his reason being that he found that butter tends to
> >>>>>> burn, while shortening doesn't.
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> >>>>>> Well, here's the recipe, first of all:
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> >>>>>>http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/t...ermilk-biscuit
> >>>>>> s- re cipe2/index.html
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> >>>>>> Okay, I tried the recipe. *I have to say they were not unedible,
> >>>>>> but nowhere near the quality of biscuits I had made using butter
> >>>>>> instead *of shortening. *These biscuits came out reminding me of
> >>>>>> store-bought, canned biscuits. *I blame the shortening, because all
> >>>>>> shortening is, *is hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils. *I
> >>>>>> was skeptical of them for that reason alone.
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> >>>>>> That said, I had normally made biscuits with plain whole milk, not
> >>>>>> buttermilk. *We normally don't keep buttermilk in the house, but my
> >>>>>> roommate had a craving for fried chicken with buttermilk batter, so
> >>>>>> since we had some left, I made buttermilk biscuits, then buttermilk
> >>>>>> pancakes a few days later. *The biscuits did rise nicely, however.
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