Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Cook's Guide entry for Vegetable shortening along with all the recipes employing Vegetable shortening presented on this site, with 36 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Vegetable shortening recipes added to this site.

These recipes, all contain Vegetable shortening as a major wild food ingredient.

Vegetable shortening is a vegetarian alternative to lard. This is a solid fat made from hydrogenated vegetable oils, typically a blend of palm oil and soybean oil (though it tends to be palm oil and rapeseed oil in UK versions such as Trex).

In the US, Crisco is the commonest and most well known brand. In the UK, vegetable shortening is not so common, though most supermarkets carry Trex. Margarnie, being vegetable based can be used as a partial substitute, though as margarine typically contains 20% water you will need to add an extra tablespoon of margarine for every 225g (1 cup) you use. If you're not vegetarian, then by far the best substitute for shortening is lard (lard is 100% animal fat).