TREX/Cookeen?

Fruball

Hi all

I found a recipe on here for the best mince pie pastry ever and wanted to try it but could only find cookeen in my MrT... so i bought it...only to find trex in mrMs today... so i bought that too

Are these basically the same thing or is one better than the other?

Thanks

(ps good thing my kids are addicted to mince pies or I would be left with a lot of leftover trex/cookeen or pastry :rotfl:)

Penelope_Penguin

Frugal wrote: »

Hi all

I found a recipe on here for the best mince pie pastry ever and wanted to try it but could only find cookeen in my MrT... so i bought it...only to find trex in mrMs today... so i bought that too

Are these basically the same thing or is one better than the other?

Thanks

(ps good thing my kids are addicted to mince pies or I would be left with a lot of leftover trex/cookeen or pastry :rotfl:)

AFAIK. they're both modified vegetable oil. I prefer lard

Pink.

I use prefer 'old fashioned' lard too.

This is an older thread, but it may help:

Trans fats and Trex ?

These threads discuss both Trex and Cookeen:

Trex

Can I use cookeen in cakes?

Pink

TheWishDragon

Hello. :hello:
I know the forum is old now but it's still good for a reference.
Trex does state on the packaging that it doesn't have hydrogenated vegetable oils, etc etc.

The packet has a table on the side of the pack I have and regarding fats it says:

per 100g -
100g fat
34g of which are saturates
48g of which are monounsaturated
18g of which are polyunsaturates.

I don't know if they have changed their recipe since this thread has been created but I am glad to know there is no 5% enigma here.

I hope that helped anyone who wanted to know.