Would a cheap person ever use shortening in place of butter for chocolate chip cookies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*UPDATE*

We have confirmed she used a soy-based butter-flavored shortening!

It’s the soy.

I’m guessing it’s Crisco butter flavored shortening. The first ingredient is soy oil, followed by palm oil. Pure junk.

Barf. Cannot believe people would willing put this in anything they are baking. I wouldn’t feed this to a dog. In fact, it would probably give the dog the worst diarrhea ever. I don’t care how light and fluffy it makes baked goods, it is garbage. Grandma didn’t know any better (or used real rendered animal fat, which is at least is natural), but we know better than to be eating this crap now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*UPDATE*

We have confirmed she used a soy-based butter-flavored shortening!

It’s the soy.

I’m guessing it’s Crisco butter flavored shortening. The first ingredient is soy oil, followed by palm oil. Pure junk.

Barf. Cannot believe people would willing put this in anything they are baking. I wouldn’t feed this to a dog. In fact, it would probably give the dog the worst diarrhea ever. I don’t care how light and fluffy it makes baked goods, it is garbage. Grandma didn’t know any better (or used real rendered animal fat, which is at least is natural), but we know better than to be eating this crap now.

“Grandma” likely “knew better” but had to make do with what was available during times of scarcity. Get off your high horse. We got a nasty preview of scarcity with COVID that was nothing as bad as what our grandparents lived through during wars. Be grateful and don’t disparage those who helped win the war with rationing, stepping into the workforce, making do, being grateful, and looking out for many other people besides themselves.

That said? I only use butter. But at least I’m grateful that it is available and know better than to trash and entire generation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*UPDATE*

We have confirmed she used a soy-based butter-flavored shortening!

It’s the soy.

I’m guessing it’s Crisco butter flavored shortening. The first ingredient is soy oil, followed by palm oil. Pure junk.

Barf. Cannot believe people would willing put this in anything they are baking. I wouldn’t feed this to a dog. In fact, it would probably give the dog the worst diarrhea ever. I don’t care how light and fluffy it makes baked goods, it is garbage. Grandma didn’t know any better (or used real rendered animal fat, which is at least is natural), but we know better than to be eating this crap now.

“Grandma” likely “knew better” but had to make do with what was available during times of scarcity. Get off your high horse. We got a nasty preview of scarcity with COVID that was nothing as bad as what our grandparents lived through during wars. Be grateful and don’t disparage those who helped win the war with rationing, stepping into the workforce, making do, being grateful, and looking out for many other people besides themselves.

That said? I only use butter. But at least I’m grateful that it is available and know better than to trash and entire generation.

Where did you get the idea the boss was married to an 85 year old woman? There’s no excuse for a rich SAHM gen Xer to be using this crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*UPDATE*

We have confirmed she used a soy-based butter-flavored shortening!

It’s the soy.

I’m guessing it’s Crisco butter flavored shortening. The first ingredient is soy oil, followed by palm oil. Pure junk.

Barf. Cannot believe people would willing put this in anything they are baking. I wouldn’t feed this to a dog. In fact, it would probably give the dog the worst diarrhea ever. I don’t care how light and fluffy it makes baked goods, it is garbage. Grandma didn’t know any better (or used real rendered animal fat, which is at least is natural), but we know better than to be eating this crap now.

“Grandma” likely “knew better” but had to make do with what was available during times of scarcity. Get off your high horse. We got a nasty preview of scarcity with COVID that was nothing as bad as what our grandparents lived through during wars. Be grateful and don’t disparage those who helped win the war with rationing, stepping into the workforce, making do, being grateful, and looking out for many other people besides themselves.

That said? I only use butter. But at least I’m grateful that it is available and know better than to trash and entire generation.

Oh please. I never had a hard time finding butter or affording it and neither did anyone replying here, or the boss’s wife

[Anonymous]

This is the junk they put in Walmart and Costco bakery section cookies. It’s why they’re dirt cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the junk they put in Walmart and Costco bakery section cookies. It’s why they’re dirt cheap.

And the cake, and the “buttercream” frosting (they should call it criscocream), and the pie...

Just no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the junk they put in Walmart and Costco bakery section cookies. It’s why they’re dirt cheap.

And the cake, and the “buttercream” frosting (they should call it criscocream), and the pie...

Just no

It’s for texture! lol

[Anonymous]

Page 212 of Marion Cunningham’s Lost Recipes for Schraft’s Butterscotch Cookies, none other than James Bears said to use a mix of butter and crisco to replace the industrial fats that the recipe originally had.

I’m sure Beard had some outdated food beliefs, but I’d put his word over whoever OP is.