Shortening replacements?

Depending on the recipe, butter or oil would work just fine. But more importantly, you have inspired me to sing. Care to join in?

Put on the skillet,
Slip on the lid,
Mama's gonna make
A little short'nin' bread.
That ain't all
She's gonna do,
Mama's gonna make
A little coffee, too.

Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread,
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread.

Three little children,
Lyin' in bed
Two were sick
And the other 'most dead
Sent for the doctor
And the doctor said,
"Give those children some
Short'nin' bread."

Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread,
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread.

Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread,
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread.

When those children,
Sick in bed,
Heard that talk
About short'nin' bread,
Popped up well
To dance and sing,
Skipped around and cut
The pigeon wing.

Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread,
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread.

Slip to the kitchen,
Slip up the led,
Filled my pockets full of
Short'nin' bread;
Stole the skillet,
Stole the led,
Stole the gal makin'
Short'nin' bread.

Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread,
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread.

Caught me with the skillet,
Caught me with the led,
Caught me with the gal makin'
Short'nin' bread;
Paid six dollars for the skillet,
Six dollars for the led,
Spent six months in jail eatin'
Short'nin' bread.

Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread,
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin', short'nin',
Mama's little baby loves
Short'nin' bread.

Now that I'm singing and dancing I don't really give a s**t about the shortening anymore!

Thanks gus.

Let's do "On the Bayou" now! Let me git my banjo....

Good-bye, Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou.
My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

Thibodaux, Fontaineaux, the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style and go hog wild, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

Settle down far from town, get me a pirogue
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
Swap my mon to buy Yvonne what she need-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.

I think it depends. If you're baking, butter and or margarine should work. In a pan for frying, perhaps butter would be quicker to burn....?

Bow bow bow...
(Um, do that again)
Bow bow bow...
Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich? A wish sandwich is the kind of a sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you, hee hee hee, wish you had some meat...
Bow bow bow...
Ummm... the other day I had a ricochet biscuit. A ricochet biscuit is the kind of a biscuit that's supposed to bounce back off the wall into your mouth. If it don't bounce back... you go hungry!
Bow bow bow...
Umm, umm, umm... the other day I had a cool water sandwich and a Sunday-go-to-meetin' bun...
Bow bow bow...
Hee hee hee hee... What da ya want for nothing? ... a rubber biscuit?
Bow bow bow...

I am liking this once sad and forlorn thread more and more by the minute.

Make a suggestion to solve my problem.

Sing a song.

It cooking karioke!

Cooking lyrics - good scavenger topic?

I forgot. I'm baking, not frying.

Its a scavenger hunt, cooking thread!
But they have to be stupid food songs.
Not things like "She's my cherry pie".
Something Dinah Shore might sing.

If you wanna do right by your appetite,
If you're fussy about your food,
Take a choo-choo today, head New England way,
And we'll put you in the happiest mood. with:
Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
Makes your eyes light up,
Your tummy say "Howdy."
Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
I never get enough of that wonderful stuff.
Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan dowdy makes the sun come out
When Heavens are cloudy,
Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy,
I never get enough of that wonderful stuff!
Mama! When you bake,
Mama! I don't want cake;
Mama! For my sake
Go to the oven and make some ever lovin' Sh,
Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
Makes your eyes light up,
Your tummy say "Howdy,"
Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
I never get enough of that wonderful stuff!

Hmmm, I've never heard of Sho Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy.

I don't think people in New England say "Howdy" either. Dinah Shore was geographically and gastronomically challenged.

You would not want to hear me sing, boomer, so I'll pass along a suggestion from Mr. Stillwater on cooking oils that worked out very well. I couldn't use olive oil because it didn't stand the heat, canola had an unpleasant and intrusive, and corn oil was borderline on the healthy food list. He said sunflower (not safflower), and have been happy with it ever since. I don't bake, so, back to you.

Roger, we do take song requests (as long as you tip).

I'm worried that adding too much liquid oil would make my cookie batter soggy.

Usually there are substitutions, even wet to dry ingredients but things have to be adjusted. I know, for example that you can use molassas instead of sugar in many recipes but you have to adjust the dry ingredients.

I will keep the sunflower oil in mind for future cooking though. I ususally by canola oils and olive oils and sunflower oil sounds like a nice addition.

I have a confession. When I originally joined this thread it was for an altruistic reason. I had been perusing the threads and stumbled across this one, by boomerang. There were no replies. I pictured boomer, sitting in her chair, staring at the computer screen, tears running down her face because of lack of responses to her shortening question. I had to act. And I'm happy to see the thread has now reached two pages.

And, boomer, if you ever come across one of my threads, and it has no replies.... I think you know what to do.

Oh! So this is your fault gus?

I'll dry my tears and always remember that you had no idea of what to substitue for shortening and that my cookies are a mess and that I owe you one.

I'm off to a holiday shindig. I'm saving a dance for you.

Ok. Later..... we shall dance.

Gus! You are most certainly a wonderful dancer.

Just in case some future internet archeologist finds this thread and wants an answer to this question....

I broke down and bought shortening (did you know that they now make one with 0 grams of trans fat? Well they do. It's made from sunflower oil!) The box says you can substitute it for butter in a recipe cup for cup by adding 6 tablespoons of water. I'm guessing that you could reduce your liquid ingredients by 6 tablespoons and use butter instead of shortening.

Tomorrow starts the bake off. I have six kinds of dough chilling in the fridge even as I type.

Please stop by for cookies and dancing and karioke.

Well, you had it from Mr. Stillwater, and confirmed by roger. Why else would they use sunflower oil?