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Default Cookies: Can vegetable spread sub for shortening?

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:18:52 -0600, Janet Wilder
> wrote:

>Goomba wrote:
>
>> If you don't want to buy Crisco, there are some non-hydrogenated
>> vegetable shortenings out there now. I looked at one just the other
>> week, but can't recall the name. It cost something like $6 for a large
>> can of it and I didn't need any so passed it up.

>
>Smart Balance® It's not hydrogenated. I use it when a recipe calls for
>shortening.
>
>I think even Crisco® is coming in a non-hydrogenated version now since
>the food police are making trans-fats illegal.


In fact, I believe that the only Crisco that is now sold
non-hydrogenated. Yep, just looked at my blue container and it says 0
trans fats.
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