Pantry guide
Best Vegetable shortening for home cooking
What Vegetable shortening is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
The white fat of a pie crust and a flour tortilla when lard is not in the house.
In Mexican cooking, Vegetable shortening is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.
Taste Vegetable shortening before you empty the spoon. Fresh jars smell like themselves; tired ones smell like dust. Buy the smallest amount you will finish.
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