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What do you use in your baking??
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Thanks everyone! It seems that Stork is very popular, which I have never used, so I may give that a try :THi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why please read the forum rules or email the forum team if you’re still unsure - MSE ForumTeam0
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Butter or lard everytime - I don't do margarine.0
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Me too, but for muffins I use sunflower oil for economy and speed (you have to melt the butter)MRSMCAWBER wrote: »Hi there
For me it has to be butter for cakes, and for pastry i use half butter and half lard.....
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Stork here too - and butter for shortbread- just like Mum, and Gran, before me!Resolution:
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I will go against the tide here and say I find sainsburys baking margerine (block type) perfectly ok for pastry, shortbread etc, but i like stork the soft stuff for cakes. I have never found any kind of spread ie utterly butterly etc any good for baking as it seems too watery. I must say I do prefer butter in shortbread though.
When I was a trainee cook my chef used to say "keep the butter for the cooking ,spread the marge on the bread"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination:beer:
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I wonder if the increase in butter prices currently discussed on another thread at the moment will cause some of the 'butter ladies' to move over to Stork or Vitalite? Or perhaps make fewer cakes (in the case of my waistline no bad thing!!)We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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butter for most things, oil for muffins and anything not containing transfats/hydrogenated fats if i dont have butter in.- prior planning prevents poor performance!
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I use stork for cake making and flap-jacks which I made this morning. Thats also used on OH's sandwiches. I'm odd and use Mayo as butter or whatever on sandwiches.0
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I'm odd and use Mayo as butter or whatever on sandwiches.
I don't use butter or similar in my sandwiches either, use mayo, or sauce, I vaguely think of it as calorie saving. I don't butter toast either if I'm having something on it eg beans
Out here in Spain it fairly commonpplace for the locals not to use butter in sandwiches, they tend to use a thin spread of skinned mashed up tomatoes0
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