Creaming (cooking)
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Creaming refers to several different culinary processes. In baking, it means the blending of ingredients with a softened form of a solid fat. In cooking, it means a dish has been poached in milk, crea
Butter being creamed by electric beaters
A bowl of creamed corn
Shortening
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Shortening is any fat that is a solid at room temperature and is used to make crumbly pastry and other food products.
Strutto, clarified pork fat or lard, a type of shortening common in Italy and Corsica (where it is named sdruttu)
A 1918 advertisement for shortening
A "short" dough is crumbly, and will crack or crumble if stretched too far.
A "long" dough can be stretched easily.