what is the available substitute for the shortening?

Question

I want to make French bread & the recipe contains 2 tablespoons shortening.

Answer 1

Do you have butter or margarine? You can use that instead of shortening.

Answer 2

For each cup of shortening you can substitute 2 sticks of polyunsaturated margarine.

From Cook's Thesarus:

shortening = vegetable shortening Notes: Crisco is a popular brand. Substitutes: butter (1 cup shortening = 1 cup + 2 tablespoons butter; butter is better tasting than shortening but more expensive and has cholesterol and a higher level of saturated fat; makes cookies less crunchy, bread crusts more crispy) OR margarine (1 cup shortening = 1 cup + 2 tablespoons margarine; margarine is better tasting than shortening, but more expensive; makes cookies less crunchy, bread crusts tougher) OR lard (1 C shortening = 1 C - 2 tablespoons lard; lard has cholesterol and a higher level of saturated fat) See also: fat (for low-fat or no-fat substitutions)

Answer 3

Basically you can sub the butter for the shortening in equal amounts. So if your recipe calls for 1 cup shortening, use
1 cup of butter. I do that all the time.

The only adjustment you may need to make is with the salt.
Since shortening has no salt in it, if you use salted butter instead, then you will want to reduce the salt in the recipe by about half. If you sub the shortening with unsalted butter, you don't need to adjust the salt.

Answer 4

Well you can go a couple of ways on this. ONe is you can use butter and it msakes the bread browner and more delicious than shortening. Also you canuse cooking oil but about a teasoon use do so you can get the bread toasted enough.

Answer 5

You can use apple sauce in any recipe to substitute for the oil/butter/shortening, except in pastry. Use the exact same amount called for in the recipe.

Answer 6

butter, butter flavored crisco, lard

Answer 7

butter

Answer 8

use butter or oil or even lard

Answer 9

any oil or butter should work