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Kalmia > wrote:

> Do you reach for butter or something else? What determines your
> choice?
> I believe butter affords a crispier cookie - yes?

Probably Crisco. To me, shortening means Crisco and butter means butter
or margarine unless the butter is specifically stated as "do not
substitute." (I haven't used margarine in a year or two, fwiw; I have
used Crisco.)

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Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
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