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(redirected from Vegetable shortening)

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teaspoon sugar - 6 tablespoons vegetable shortening - ?
The name they gave it was Crisco -- a contraction of "crystallized cottonseed oil," Solid vegetable shortening was seen as the fat of the future, a replacement for the animal fats that were suspected of causing heart disease.
But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal; Global food price increases, together with floods and crop damage from the 2007 hurricane season, prompted the U.
 
 
 
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