"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote
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>> "Nancy Young" > wrote
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>>> I've seen recipes where Crisco is used rather than butter, in
>>> chocolate chip cookies for instance. And, although I am not a
>>> baker, I don't think of lard as something you'd use in making
>>> bread, which is what we're talking about here.
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>> Hi Nancy, I often use lard in breads.
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> Yeah, I've looked at a lot of bread recipes, I don't think it's
> common here. The baker types will correct me if I'm wrong.
> I don't mean, does someone have this one recipe for bread
> that uses lard, I mean in general. Always seems to be butter.
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> Regardless, I've given up any effort trying to explain to her what
> Crisco is, or what she might use instead. It's a solid vegetable fat.
>
> nancy


I don't think I've ever run across a bread recipe that called for lard.
I've used either butter or oil in all the breads I've made. The only
exception I know of is biscuits and I have a recipe that uses oil.

I don't know what's so hard to understand about solid vegetable fat.

Ms P