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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; it will crack or crumble if stretched too far.
A long dough can be stretched easily.
Crisco
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Crisco is an American brand of shortening that is produced by B&G Foods in St.Bernard, Ohio. Introduced in June 1911 by Procter & Gamble, it was the first shortening to be made entirely of vegetable o
Shortening
…Since the product looked like lard, Procter & Gamble instead began selling it as a vegetable fat for cooking purposes in June 1911, calling it "Crisco", a modification of the phrase "crystallized cottonseed oil". While similar to lard, vegetable shortening was much cheaper to produce. Shortening also…
Vintage Crisco can
By the mid-20th-century, home cooks often substituted Crisco for butter in baked goods, as was the case in this orange cake recipe
Cover of the original Crisco cookbook, 1912
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