Vegetable shortening

[barrys]

Does anyone know if vegetable shortening is avilable in the HH/Pranburi area?

[lindosfan1]

Sorry could not resist this

[Siani]

Does anyone know if vegetable shortening is avilable in the HH/Pranburi area?

I would think so...it's only margarine ..at least I think so

[dtaai-maai]

Can't sleep, hope this helps (had to look up vegetable shortening...)

Vegetable shortening is a common ingredient in cooking. However, if it is not possible to acquire vegetable shortening, there are a number of other common ingredients that can suffice as substitutes. The right substitution to use, however, depends on the original purpose of the vegetable shortening. This is because vegetable shortening has two common uses, frying and baking.Substituting for
vegetable shortening for frying is easily accomplished by using any commonly available cooking oil. While a recipe may call for frying in vegetable shortening in order to acquire a certain texture or flavor, olive oil, vegetable oil, canola oil or any other cooking oil is as simple to use for frying any desired dish.Finding a substitute for vegetable shortening used in baking is slightly more difficult. In baking recipes, shortening is cut-in to a certain quantity of flour in order to create globules of fat in various sizes. For pie crust or certain pastries, shortening is cut-in until the fat is in pea-sized lumps in order to create large flaky layers in the resulting crust. Alternatively, shortening is cut-in until it resembles a coarse, ground meal for biscuits in order to create dense flaky layers. In order to create the same effect, lard, butter or vegetable oil can suffice as a substitute. Of these three, lard is the most effective. Unlike the other options, however, lard contains animal fats. Butter is the second best substitute, but using butter to create the desired consistency for dough is more difficult. In order to have more control over the butter, in addition to lard or vegetable shortening, many cooking experts recommend using the ingredient in a chilled state. While it is possible to use vegetable oil as a substitute for vegetable shortening in baking recipes, the aforementioned substitutes are more likely to create the same effect as shortening since oil is not able to form the same kind of lump in the dough.

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Crisco seems to be the runaway favourite brand.
Try the bakery ingredients shop on Petchkasem (on left heading north) opposite soi 51.

[chaspul]

Hi Barry
Crisco normally stocked in Villa Market, wife uses it all the time.
For reference the only palace I have ever (long time ago) found real beef suet is Ham and Bacon.
Chas

[Dannie Boy]

Makro sell a number of types of shortening.

[Terry]

Sorry Chas - couldn;t resist this either............

........For reference the only palace I have ever (long time ago) found real beef suet is Ham and Bacon.Chas

JD - final recognition?

[barrys]

Thanks a lot for all the responses - looks like to trip to Villa/Makro then.

[barrys]

gf just got back from Makro Pranburi with a 1 kg bag of shortening made from refined palm fat from pericarp and refined palm kernel fat for 80 baht.

Let's see how it works out for pie pastry.

Thanks to all of you for your help

[chaspul]

Thanks Terry,
Looks like I need to change the battery in the remote keyboard, can not be my typppping skills!!!
Chas