[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 20, Issue 118

[Pat]

If she is Vegan, butter is out, and I wouldn't substitute margarine for ANY fat if possible.  All those trans-fats...
 
Mordonna


Jadwiga spake thusly:

> I am using lard instead of suet for two reasons: the first is that the only suet I can find around here is all sold as not-fit for human consumption (ie: winter feed for the birds). And I don't buy enough beef of any kind (reducing my bad cholesterol effort) to render/obtain my own. 
> 
> The second is that lard is close to Crisco in texture and work-feel. I will be making the final product using crisco because the person whose vigil these are intended for is a vegetarian.

Hm... what about margarine or butter? Would they be more like suet in 
texture/work-feel?

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 

 


Pat Griffin
Lady Anne du Bosc
known as Mordonna the Cook
Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
Mundanely, Millbrook, AL