KarenR

I use butter instead of shortening in ALL cookie recopies!
I do not like what is in shortening!!
Butter is made with milk products and living in dairy country we use the real stuff!
Enjoy them!!!

Tartan

Mariatherese, I am green with envy of your good blood tests. My high cholesterol is hereditary and I do the best I can with diet. I cannot take the cholesterol lowering drugs as they make me sick. I LOVE butter and save it for special occasions like baking my shortbread cookies at Christmas.

yel

what about mayo or applesauce

SunlitenSmiles

when you use butter be sure to refrigerate the dough for an hour or so before forming/cutting/scooping onto cooking parchment. well this is California....so if your kitchen is as warm as California, refrigerate the dough.

mariatherese

Tartan - for a "normal" person you can only affect your cholesterol marginally with the diet. Most of it we make on our own. I know this is isn't true if you have hereditary conditions, as you do. I'm sorry to hear about your condition. However, the medications are not nice either (the statins)... so if you can control it by diet - good for you!

SunlitenSmiles - that's exactly what my co-worker advised me! She was kind enough to answer my email even though we are off! Keep it in the refrigerator first! It is rather warm in here. Swedish houses have the thickest walls filled with insulation.

And let me tell you, it worked great with butter:
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The taste is delicious. It's not like anything from a Swedish kitchen. I had 1/4 of a cookie... I'm not going to have any more or I will just gobble them all down!

margied

I've been using butter instead of shortening for a while and it seems to work out fine. I also have a pie crust recipe that uses oil instead of shortening - that seemed healthier to me!

squeaky44

Been baking for 70 yrs. and always was perplexed by recipes calling for one egg and I only wanted to make 1/2 the recipe. What would 1/2 an egg be? I was lamenting my dilemma when my granddaughter came up with what I think was a brilliant answer. She said to beat the egg and then put in a measuring cup and use 1/2 of what it measures.
Duh! So simple but in 70 yrs. never thought of that solution.

tkee

I don't use shortening or margarine because I think all those unnatural man-made ingredients are disgusting. I use either butter or coconut oil for my baking.

MaryKatherine

By all mean BUTTER.. It IS a food group of its own, you know!!
MaryKatherine

madamekelly

You can use butter for shortening in equal measure, but if the butter is salted, remember to cut any salt in the recipe by half to make sure your cookies are not too salty.