On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 10:10:56 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 12:39:41 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 5:18:49 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>>
>> > I have heard of this. It seems like a good idea. I don't like the idea of using butter instead of shortening for biscuits or shortcrust so I probably won't be trying it - maybe I should try it with frozen shortening.
>>
>> Why? The taste of butter is delicious. The flavor of partially hydrogenated
>> vegetable shortening isn't.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
>Butter does taste better than shortening but I like the texture of biscuits or shortcrust made with shortening. Butter makes it too delicate for me.

In baker's parlance butter is shortening, any fat is shortening.