Comments on: cookbook reviews with kristina: sweet tooth http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/cookbook-reviews-with-kristina-sweet-tooth.html Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:57:59 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: wallaby http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/cookbook-reviews-with-kristina-sweet-tooth.html/comment-page-1#comment-120847 wallaby Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:00:57 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=38045#comment-120847 I live in the UK and while Crisco is only available at a few special american shops (and for a high price) I have found that they sell vegetable fat for baking in the cold section next to the margerines and butters. It is basically the same as crisco in a block and comes in lots of different brands, but all say "for baking" so people know they are not to spread on their bread. I didn't know it was there for a couple years though! And no one knew what I meant when I called it shortening. Maybe Rome has something similar? I live in the UK and while Crisco is only available at a few special american shops (and for a high price) I have found that they sell vegetable fat for baking in the cold section next to the margerines and butters. It is basically the same as crisco in a block and comes in lots of different brands, but all say “for baking” so people know they are not to spread on their bread. I didn’t know it was there for a couple years though! And no one knew what I meant when I called it shortening. Maybe Rome has something similar?

]]> By: Fresh Design Blog http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/cookbook-reviews-with-kristina-sweet-tooth.html/comment-page-1#comment-120845 Fresh Design Blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:07:46 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=38045#comment-120845 Oh my goodness, the baking books look gorgeous! Oh my goodness, the baking books look gorgeous!

]]> By: kristina http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/cookbook-reviews-with-kristina-sweet-tooth.html/comment-page-1#comment-120839 kristina Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:22:41 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=38045#comment-120839 @beth @Katie @Jackie thanks for your suggestions! Whenever possible, I try recipes as they are written before I experiment with substitutions. I will try lard and/or butter and see what I come up with! @Wadcity - Yes I did try a cake from the book, and it was fantastic! Very easy to make. It didnt require a tube pan or crisco. My "complaint" about Crisco is not a complaint, though. I was only pointing out my own -personal- setback. If I lived where Crisco and a good quality regular 10" tube pan were easier to locate and more affordable, I would use this book every week. Hello? Santa are you reading? @beth @Katie @Jackie thanks for your suggestions! Whenever possible, I try recipes as they are written before I experiment with substitutions. I will try lard and/or butter and see what I come up with!

@Wadcity – Yes I did try a cake from the book, and it was fantastic! Very easy to make. It didnt require a tube pan or crisco. My “complaint” about Crisco is not a complaint, though. I was only pointing out my own -personal- setback. If I lived where Crisco and a good quality regular 10″ tube pan were easier to locate and more affordable, I would use this book every week.

Hello? Santa are you reading?

]]> By: grace http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/cookbook-reviews-with-kristina-sweet-tooth.html/comment-page-1#comment-120830 grace Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:42:27 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=38045#comment-120830 wadcity kristina, who writes our recipe column, lives in rome. not exactly crisco city. please read the comments above you before you start calling someone out on their valid "complaints". grace wadcity

kristina, who writes our recipe column, lives in rome. not exactly crisco city. please read the comments above you before you start calling someone out on their valid “complaints”.

grace

]]> By: wadcity http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/cookbook-reviews-with-kristina-sweet-tooth.html/comment-page-1#comment-120828 wadcity Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:46:02 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=38045#comment-120828 since when is it hard to find crisco? or are you saying the recipes call for tallow or lard or something? seriously don't understand the complaint about shortening... crisco is partially dehydrogenated but you shouldn't be using a ton of it. and where is it hard to find a tube pan? did you try any of the recipes in the melissa gray book? since when is it hard to find crisco? or are you saying the recipes call for tallow or lard or something? seriously don’t understand the complaint about shortening… crisco is partially dehydrogenated but you shouldn’t be using a ton of it. and where is it hard to find a tube pan? did you try any of the recipes in the melissa gray book?

]]> By: Jackie http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/cookbook-reviews-with-kristina-sweet-tooth.html/comment-page-1#comment-120826 Jackie Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:35:24 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=38045#comment-120826 Ah, thank you for the clarification, Grace. Lard probably is available in Italy for traditional cooking. Really, shortening was devised as a substitute for lard, so I would think the conversion would work just fine. Not for the vegetarians among us, however. Ah, thank you for the clarification, Grace.

Lard probably is available in Italy for traditional cooking. Really, shortening was devised as a substitute for lard, so I would think the conversion would work just fine. Not for the vegetarians among us, however.

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