Omelet wrote:

> Sorry, but I thought this was funny as hell. ;-)
>
> U.S. Military recipe for brownies and oatmeal cookies.
>
> It's twenty-six pages long and replete with such gems as:
>
> "3.2.4 Shortening, hydrogenated. Shortening shall be a refined,
> hydrogenated vegetable oil or combination of refined vegetable oils
> which
> are in common use by the baking industry. Coconut and palm kernel
> oils may
> be used only in the coating. The shortening shall have a stability
> of not
> less than 100 hours as determined by the Active Oxygen Method (AOM)
> in Method Cd 12-57 of the MIL-C-44072C Commercial Fats and Oils
> chapter in the
> Official and Tentative Methods of the American Oil Chemists Society.
> The
> shortening may contain alpha monoglycerides and an antioxidant or
> combination of antioxidants, as permitted by the Federal Grain
> Inspection
> Service (FGIS), and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and
> regulations
> promulgated thereunder."
>
> PDF
> http://liw.iki.fi/liw/misc/MIL-C-44072C.pdf

Thanks!

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