what is shortening?

[Xena]

In us recipe? thanks

and what are molasses???

it means the fat, the butter, the lard the margerine - you are baking I presume?
molasses is like black treacle, use that if you can't find molasses

ahh thanks suzy. Yes baking I am going to make gingerbread muffins

schweet

I thought shortening was something like Cookeen/Trex rather than butter/marg?

ask google and take your pick

Did you SD,did you really?
Once again we square up in a nice middle class way over the quest to be Top Dog on the baking threads........grrrrrrrrrrr.

yes shortening is lard, I buy trex when I need shortening and works fine. I wouldn't use butter or marg, it's the wrong consistancy

you won't be able to buy molasses here ( I've looked for years!) closest thing would be treacle , either the light or dark versions

ahaa - i'm learning something

so shortening is lard... but when nigella says vegetable shortening - and i think she uses something called trex - what exactly is that?? i am in denmark, so brand names don't apply!

could i just use sunflower marg instead?