Old Recipes
12-09-2020, 01:22 PM
#11
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Spray for baking pans
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.
12-09-2020, 05:28 PM
#12
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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.
12-09-2020, 05:37 PM
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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.)
12-09-2020, 06:46 PM
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crusts the rare times I make a pie
12-09-2020, 09:11 PM
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12-10-2020, 06:10 AM
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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.
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.
12-10-2020, 01:33 PM
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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.
12-11-2020, 08:27 PM
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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
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.
