Does anyone know what white crisco is? I'm trying to make a butter cream and it says to use this ingredient

Crisco is a brand name of shortening.. A vegetable oil based grease similar in texture to lard (which is a meat oil based grease)...





Criisco comes in original and butter varieties.. The butter variety is butter flavored and dyed yellow... The original is white in color no added flavor...





You will find it in the baking aisle of your supermarked it comes in a blue #10 (large) can...





Picture of original Crisco packaging





http://www.panzers.co.uk/i/crisco-image.鈥?/a>





Picture of butter flavor Crisco packaging





http://www.flickr.com/photos/dulamae/232鈥?/a>





You need to use the original for butter cream as the dyed butter flavor variety will make the butter cream yellow throwing off any color you attempt to dye it...





When buying shoetening be sure to read the label carefully you want a 100% vegetable based shortening, it will store longer and not have the mild meat type flavor present in lard and mixed base shortenings...





Addition To the poster below butter flavor crisco (dyed yellow) was introduced in the early 1980's





http://www.crisco.com/About_Crisco/Histo鈥?/a>Does anyone know what white crisco is? I'm trying to make a butter cream and it says to use this ingredient
Crisco is a solidified vegetable oil that can be used as a butter substitute in some cases. People grease their pans w/it, bake with it etc....Does anyone know what white crisco is? I'm trying to make a butter cream and it says to use this ingredient
vegetable shortening. But you should be able to find a recipe that just uses butter, and no crisco. Crisco doesn't melt....but it has trans fats in it.
It's shortening. Look for it in the baking aisle, or substitute butter or margarine instead.
Crisco is grease. They sell it at any grocery store, just check where they keep the cooking oil. It should be a blue can.
Yea, its that crisco thats not butter flavored. Blue can and all. Wait, when did crisco come in another color?
LARD. Staight fat lard.
im pretty sure its a brand of shortening