Re: REC: Spice Cake with Maple Frosting

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:08:51 -0400, Jill McQuown
<j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

On 4/27/2025 6:06 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:47:52 +0000, BryanGSimmons wrote:
 

Only a pig would use vegetable shortening in the 21st century.

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And you'd oink your way right to the table, pushing
everyone out of the way and bury your mug right into
that cake.

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Obviously Bryan is such an excellent baker he's qualified to criticize.
One could use butter instead.  But Mr. Piggy probably thinks using high
oleic sunflower oil would be better, even though it would totally screw
it up.

Vegetable shortening often contains transfats. Transfats are one of
the few things everybody agrees on that they're are bad for you. In
the US and EU, depending on the amount, it's either banned or listing
it is compulsory. In AU, it's not banned and listing it isn't
compulsory "because we don't use them much anyway". Says who? The food
industry? Who checks that? Gimme numbers, please. Don't trust the
bastards.

I once asked a producer of a prefab item over email, forgot what it
was. They never replied. Right.

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Bruce
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