Help needed, in the states and need to know what Trek is and what I can substitute for it

[MissDodger]

I have a recipe for a release for baking and it requires 100 g of Trek, but I have no idea what that is or what I can use as a substitute for it. Can anyone help me please?

Is it Trex? Vegetable fat for baking?

Does it say trex?

It's vegetable fat.

Trex

Trex is a dairy free butter substitute. If you aren’t aiming for dairy free use butter

I would use half butter, half lard if you don't want to use vegetable shortening, it gives that very short texture to pastry etc but still tastes nice.

Vegetable Shortening

Crisco

I agree with Crisco

Trex is a lard substitute - deffo not butter substitute.
Great for pastry - even for omnivores.

Yes fair enough, lard rather than butter substitute. You wouldn't spread Trex on toast but you'd definitely make pastry with either. HTH OP

Yes on my baking groups the people in the US talk about using Crisco for baking release recipes, actually for anything where we'd use Trex.