Recipes with vegetable shortening
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Salt Rising Bread
Salt rising bread made with a potato-cornmeal starter fermented overnight. No yeast needed. A heritage Appalachian bread with a unique cheese-like aroma and dense crumb.
No-Bake Butterscotch Haystacks
No-bake butterscotch haystacks with peanut butter chips and chow mein noodles. A four-ingredient candy that melts in the microwave and sets on the counter.
Best Little Fried Pies
They are so good, buttery pie crust, moist and juicy filling inside, and frying gives the golden, brown and crispy result.
Goldy's Sorry Cake
Three-layer buttermilk cake with cranberries, pecans, shredded wheat cereal, and orange zest, topped with orange cream cheese frosting. A unique, textured celebration cake with tangy-sweet flavor.
Banana-Walnut Cookies
Banana-Walnut Cookies pack two cups of rolled oats into a soft, cinnamon-spiced drop cookie with mashed banana and brown sugar. A generous 60-cookie batch ready in 30 minutes.
Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cherry chocolate chip cookies with chopped maraschino cherries, semi-sweet chips, and almond extract in a chewy brown sugar dough. Bake 8 minutes for chewy, 13 for crisp.
Vanilla Butternut Pound Cake
A Southern cold-oven pound cake with both vanilla and butternut flavoring, baked low and slow in a tube pan. Dense, buttery crumb with a golden crust that needs no frosting.
Squirrel Pot Pie
Old-fashioned squirrel pot pie with tender wild game, sliced potatoes, and handmade dough squares simmered in rich broth. A hearty Appalachian tradition that turns a day's hunt into a soul-warming supper.
Chocolate Jimmy Cake with Frosting
This old-school chocolate jimmy cake is studded with chocolate sprinkles and lifted with beaten egg whites for a tender crumb. Topped with creamy vanilla frosting, it's a Northeast classic worth reviving.
Mince-Meat Cookies
Mince-meat cookies made with a tender cake flour dough rolled thin, filled with cooked mincemeat, and sandwiched together. A vintage holiday filled cookie that makes 36.
Diabetic Southern Peach Shortcake
Diabetic Southern peach shortcake bakes sliced peaches under a sugar-substitute biscuit batter with cinnamon and almond extract. A low-sugar cobbler-style dessert ready in 45 minutes.
Mexican Spanish Rice
Homemade Mexican Spanish rice toasted golden in a skillet with tomatoes, garlic, onions, and bell pepper. This easy one-pot side dish simmers to fluffy, savory goodness in just 35 minutes.
Cream Filberts
Cream filbert cookies with a whole hazelnut hidden inside each shortbread ball, glazed in vanilla icing and rolled in sugar. Vintage Pacific Northwest holiday cookie with a sweet crackly finish.
Kahlua Apple Pie
Lattice-top apple pie with Kahlua coffee liqueur, brown sugar, and a toasted pecan layer baked into the bottom crust. A grown-up twist on a Thanksgiving classic.
Keebler Pecan Sandies
Homemade Pecan Sandies copycat recipe with finely chopped pecans in a buttery shortening-based dough baked until golden. A spot-on clone of the classic Keebler cookie.
Eggless Corn Muffins
Eggless corn muffins use just seven pantry staples and no eggs at all. Lightly sweet, tender, and ready in 40 minutes start to finish. A solid pick for egg allergies or when the carton's empty.
Salt rising bread made with a potato-cornmeal starter fermented overnight. No yeast needed. A heritage Appalachian bread with a unique cheese-like aroma and dense crumb.
No-bake butterscotch haystacks with peanut butter chips and chow mein noodles. A four-ingredient candy that melts in the microwave and sets on the counter.
They are so good, buttery pie crust, moist and juicy filling inside, and frying gives the golden, brown and crispy result.
Three-layer buttermilk cake with cranberries, pecans, shredded wheat cereal, and orange zest, topped with orange cream cheese frosting. A unique, textured celebration cake with tangy-sweet flavor.
Banana-Walnut Cookies pack two cups of rolled oats into a soft, cinnamon-spiced drop cookie with mashed banana and brown sugar. A generous 60-cookie batch ready in 30 minutes.
Cherry chocolate chip cookies with chopped maraschino cherries, semi-sweet chips, and almond extract in a chewy brown sugar dough. Bake 8 minutes for chewy, 13 for crisp.
A Southern cold-oven pound cake with both vanilla and butternut flavoring, baked low and slow in a tube pan. Dense, buttery crumb with a golden crust that needs no frosting.
Old-fashioned squirrel pot pie with tender wild game, sliced potatoes, and handmade dough squares simmered in rich broth. A hearty Appalachian tradition that turns a day's hunt into a soul-warming supper.
This old-school chocolate jimmy cake is studded with chocolate sprinkles and lifted with beaten egg whites for a tender crumb. Topped with creamy vanilla frosting, it's a Northeast classic worth reviving.
Mince-meat cookies made with a tender cake flour dough rolled thin, filled with cooked mincemeat, and sandwiched together. A vintage holiday filled cookie that makes 36.
Diabetic Southern peach shortcake bakes sliced peaches under a sugar-substitute biscuit batter with cinnamon and almond extract. A low-sugar cobbler-style dessert ready in 45 minutes.
Homemade Mexican Spanish rice toasted golden in a skillet with tomatoes, garlic, onions, and bell pepper. This easy one-pot side dish simmers to fluffy, savory goodness in just 35 minutes.
Cream filbert cookies with a whole hazelnut hidden inside each shortbread ball, glazed in vanilla icing and rolled in sugar. Vintage Pacific Northwest holiday cookie with a sweet crackly finish.
Lattice-top apple pie with Kahlua coffee liqueur, brown sugar, and a toasted pecan layer baked into the bottom crust. A grown-up twist on a Thanksgiving classic.
Homemade Pecan Sandies copycat recipe with finely chopped pecans in a buttery shortening-based dough baked until golden. A spot-on clone of the classic Keebler cookie.
Eggless corn muffins use just seven pantry staples and no eggs at all. Lightly sweet, tender, and ready in 40 minutes start to finish. A solid pick for egg allergies or when the carton's empty.
