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FoxyLady 12-09-2020 01:22 PM

Spray for baking pans
 

Originally Posted by sewingsuz (Post 8441039)
I have notice that the old ones call for Crisco. I do not use that for baking anymore.. Could I substitute butter in those recipes? Today I made a pecan bar and It was in a book my daughter put together. It did not say to grease the pan and that was a mistake. It stuck so bad my HB cut it and use a spatula to get the bars out.I am going to continue tomorrow and make some sugar cookies. I have a recipe that I made when I was 11 yrs old and I had 4 brothers and the writing was still there were I wrote down the measuements how to double.. My HB said they tasted like his grandma made. The book was for children and we did not have mixers then and it would have notes to ask your brother to mix it a few times when you got tired. The book is falling apart and I figured it is 68 yrs old. It sure brings back memories looking at that book. It would not be Christmas if I did not bake some candy and cookies. My friends and my mom love when I give them a can or box.

I use Baker's Joy to spray all my cake/cookie pans. No sticking at all. I wouldn't be without this wonderful item.

IceLeopard 12-09-2020 05:28 PM


Originally Posted by Murphy224 (Post 8441051)
Also have found that in using old recipes that call for specific ingredients like one can of something, or one box of of something, to be careful because the weight and measurements of those ingredients have changed over the years. For example, an" old" recipe I have calls for an 18 oz box of cake mix ( this is from the 80's). Well, found that all current cake mixes are 15 oz.

It's even worse when it's a "grandma" recipe that says "Mush up a 50-cent box of vanilla wafers, put them in the blue bowl and add milk up to the bottom of the crack."

IceLeopard 12-09-2020 05:37 PM


Originally Posted by Quiltwoman44 (Post 8441086)
I know, some recipes ask for lard and i think-what? I only have olive oil in the house. sigh.

Lard seems to react differently than shortening. My daughter makes my MIL's Xmas cookies every year for DH, and always used shortening as the recipe called for. The cookies never came out quite right, crumbly and breaking easily. This year she tried lard. No breakage at all, not crumbly, every one looked perfect, and DH says they tasted like the ones from his childhood. (Yes, MIL was the type to change her "secret family recipes" so that only she could make them right.)

Stitchnripper 12-09-2020 06:46 PM


Originally Posted by IceLeopard (Post 8441316)
It's even worse when it's a "grandma" recipe that says "Mush up a 50-cent box of vanilla wafers, put them in the blue bowl and add milk up to the bottom of the crack."

OMG that is so true! My grandma made some delicious things and I watched her as a little girl. Then I grew up and asked her for recipes. “Cook some rice and add water and then when it looks right add some of something else” - looks right and some. I never got the hang of making her recipes. I don’t use crisco - I don’t bake much and use premade
crusts the rare times I make a pie

Teen 12-09-2020 09:11 PM


Originally Posted by IceLeopard (Post 8441316)
It's even worse when it's a "grandma" recipe that says "Mush up a 50-cent box of vanilla wafers, put them in the blue bowl and add milk up to the bottom of the crack."

LOL!!! I have so many grandma recipes that are a hit and miss trying to translate. Her yeast roll recipe is the death of me..”pat it with scraper (what is a scraper?)...”pinch and pull till springy”. (What does springy look like?) .... and her dumplin’s recipe just has a list of ingredients.....not the measurements. I finally just framed that recipe and hung it on kitchen wall. Lol..

SusieQOH 12-10-2020 06:10 AM

Those Grandma recipes are so cute!!!

I once made a pie crust with Coconut Oil- once I said. it was a complete disaster, as in "had to toss out" haha!

Re: butter. We bought Kerry's Gold and now that's the only one we buy. It's fantastic.

TacoMama 12-10-2020 07:44 AM

I think everything now causes cancer. The covid virus is in the air. Anything we eat that is already canned is not good for us. Not all of us can have gardens any more like we used to.

ptquilts 12-10-2020 01:33 PM


Originally Posted by TacoMama (Post 8441490)
I think everything now causes cancer. The covid virus is in the air. Anything we eat that is already canned is not good for us. Not all of us can have gardens any more like we used to.

Right, I am not worrying about casein, lol. You have to use common sense.

I just made my mom's Christmas cookie recipe, calls for butter. Yummy. You can't go wrong with butter in cookies if you ask me. I once saw a 1950's recipe for shortbread, which called for shortening instead of butter. Ugh. Butter is what gives it flavor.

Annaquilts 12-11-2020 08:24 PM

What a beautiful story. Could you post some pictures and recipes? I did not bake anything yet.

Annaquilts 12-11-2020 08:27 PM


Originally Posted by tropit (Post 8441229)
OK...here's what is in Crisco:

Soybean Oil, Fully Hydrogenated Palm Oil, Mono and Diglycerides, TBQH, citric acid.

Total Fat: 12g, 15%
Saturated Fat: 3.5g, 16%
Trans Fat: 0
Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g
Monounsaturated Fat: 2.5g
Cholesterol: 0
Sodium: 0
Total Carbohydrates: 0
Protein: 0


I'll take lard any day over this.


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