{"id":1172,"date":"2018-07-03T11:39:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T17:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2018-07-03T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T17:39:13","slug":"shortening-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/03\/shortening-substitute\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortening substitute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to replace all the &#8220;weird&#8221; ingredients in my cooking with more natural ingredients. Shortening has been a particularly difficult one to substitute, as it has certain properties that no other cooking fat has.<\/p>\n<p>One suggestion I read was to try substituting clarified butter. In a spirit of scientific enquiry, I tried it with a blueberry coffee cake. <\/p>\n<p>Result? Oh my word. A lovely, short, buttery coffee cake. It was divine. And it was so easy to make the substitute!<\/p>\n<li>1 cup \/ 2 sticks \/ 225g butter PLUS <\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons \/ 28g butter<\/li>\n<p>Put all the butter into a saucepan. Heat over medium low heat until the butter begins to &#8220;sizzle&#8221;. This is the water beginning to cook out. <\/p>\n<p>Keep the heat under the butter until all the sizzling has stopped. Pour the clarified butter through a cheesecloth to catch any milk solids.<\/p>\n<p>Pour into a suitable 1 cup container and refrigerate. Makes 1 cup of clarified butter \/ shortening substitute. Use in any recipe that calls for shortening. <\/p>\n<p>(Do you have to refrigerate it? No, clarified butter is shelf stable. But having it cold helps when it comes time to make the dough.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to replace all the &#8220;weird&#8221; ingredients in my cooking with more natural ingredients. Shortening has been a particularly difficult one to substitute, as it has certain properties that no other cooking fat has. One suggestion I read was to try substituting clarified butter. In a spirit of scientific enquiry, I tried it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frugal-living","category-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}