What are you eating?

[Mary Stetler]

This product is used to fry almost everything, snack foods, fast food...
I used to mostly gag at hot dog ingredients...

 

[Yvonne Smith]

For hundreds of years, humans have only used natural oils and fats for cooking, and we would never have even considered going through all that process to extract oil from a plant like they do now to make the seeds oils.
All oils were cold-pressed, and that is all they needed, and most people used animal fats for cooking in high heat.

I think it started during the war when we were short of industrial oil for machinery, so they started processing cottonseeds to get the oil out to keep up the supply necessary for the military vehicles. After the war, they had the refinery plants where they made these seed and plant oils, and so they decided to start marketing the oil to the American people as “shortening”, that looks like lard, but was made from processed seeds and legumes like soybeans.
We were then told that it was healthier for us than animal fats.

Proctor and Gamble named their product Crisco, which stood for “crystallized cottonseed oil”, and then they made a whole cookbook for housewives using their product and gave it away free, thus making Crisco an item used by almost everyone in their cooking.
By the 1960’s, we had a lot of products that were made from refined seed oils, and the health industry pushed the idea that even though these oils had been heated to a high temperature, gone though a chemical cleaning and refining process, and then bleached to remove the color and smell of the burned oil, they were much healthier for us than using plain old lard or butter for cooking.

 

[Mary Stetler]

For hundreds of years, humans have only used natural oils and fats for cooking, and we would never have even considered going through all that process to extract oil from a plant like they do now to make the seeds oils.
All oils were cold-pressed, and that is all they needed, and most people used animal fats for cooking in high heat.

I think it started during the war when we were short of industrial oil for machinery, so they started processing cottonseeds to get the oil out to keep up the supply necessary for the military vehicles. After the war, they had the refinery plants where they made these seed and plant oils, and so they decided to start marketing the oil to the American people as “shortening”, that looks like lard, but was made from processed seeds and legumes like soybeans.
We were then told that it was healthier for us than animal fats.

Proctor and Gamble named their product Crisco, which stood for “crystallized cottonseed oil”, and then they made a whole cookbook for housewives using their product and gave it away free, thus making Crisco an item used by almost everyone in their cooking.
By the 1960’s, we had a lot of products that were made from refined seed oils, and the health industry pushed the idea that even though these oils had been heated to a high temperature, gone though a chemical cleaning and refining process, and then bleached to remove the color and smell of the burned oil, they were much healthier for us than using plain old lard or butter for cooking.

And we wonder why we have so much cancer these days with all the progress fostered by the American Cancer Society.
Go look at their sponsor list.

 

[Marie Mallory]

For hundreds of years, humans have only used natural oils and fats for cooking, and we would never have even considered going through all that process to extract oil from a plant like they do now to make the seeds oils.
All oils were cold-pressed, and that is all they needed, and most people used animal fats for cooking in high heat.

I think it started during the war when we were short of industrial oil for machinery, so they started processing cottonseeds to get the oil out to keep up the supply necessary for the military vehicles. After the war, they had the refinery plants where they made these seed and plant oils, and so they decided to start marketing the oil to the American people as “shortening”, that looks like lard, but was made from processed seeds and legumes like soybeans.
We were then told that it was healthier for us than animal fats.

Proctor and Gamble named their product Crisco, which stood for “crystallized cottonseed oil”, and then they made a whole cookbook for housewives using their product and gave it away free, thus making Crisco an item used by almost everyone in their cooking.
By the 1960’s, we had a lot of products that were made from refined seed oils, and the health industry pushed the idea that even though these oils had been heated to a high temperature, gone though a chemical cleaning and refining process, and then bleached to remove the color and smell of the burned oil, they were much healthier for us than using plain old lard or butter for cooking.

I agree and biscuits taste best with lard too, not that I've used it in 40 or more years.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I agree and biscuits taste best with lard too, not that I've used it in 40 or more years.

And butter.

 

[Marie Mallory]

And butter.

Mary that's what I've been using lately, they do dry out a little sooner, but they taste good.
We haven't bought Crisco in years.
I'm ready for some of our fruit cakes, we make really good fruit cakes. A recipe from Jakes mother, plus a little of my own ingredients. I like to soak the nuts and fruits in brandy overnight.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I love Pizza!

 

[Mary Stetler]

Mary that's what I've been using lately, they do dry out a little sooner, but they taste good.
We haven't bought Crisco in years.
I'm ready for some of our fruit cakes, we make really good fruit cakes. A recipe from Jakes mother, plus a little of my own ingredients. I like to soak the nuts and fruits in brandy overnight.

yum. I like it with rum.