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I have heard that if one eats a bit of castor/caster sugar, it can sweeten one's disposition. 
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Lard is the best shortener in the Universe but is politically incorrect.
Not to mention medically.
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What do non-USns call shortening, then?
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actually faldage, "crisco" (a liquid vegetable oil that has been "hydolized")is full of 'trans fats" and we now know that transfats-- Increase the bad cholesterol, and decrease the the good! Lard is actually a healthier fat than than crisco.(it just increases the bad (the LDL's)(and has no effect what so ever, on HDL's)
likewise butter is healthier than oleo's (margarines) that contain transfats, for the same reasons.
Lard (or butter) are not the healthiest of foods to eat, but they actually are better for you than liquid oils that have been 'treated' to make them into 'solid' shortenings.
(shades of woody allan --any day now, red meat will be found to be healthier than low fat chicken!)
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Sticky toffee pudding - a wonderful Scottish treat - uses both caster sugar and muscovado sugar. On our first attempt to make it, we scoured the Web for definitions. You just don't see these words in US cookbooks, nor can you find the products in most US food stores. We used "raw" sugar for the muscovado and ran regular refined sugar through a cuisinart to produce a facsimile of caster sugar. The results were delicious! We have since learned that using regular refined sugar does just as well as using caster, and that you can fake the muscovado by adding a dash of molassas to refined sugar. Celiacs in the crowd may also be happy to know that sticky toffee pudding can be made with any combination of substitute flours.
And cardamom is good for stomachs, however you spell it. Drop a pod in your tea cup and reuse it until the flavor is all gone. Then you can break out the seeds and use them in cooking to eke out the last bit of essence.
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Lard is the best shortener in the Universe...
Lard will produce the flakiest pastries, but I think butter provides a better flavor. Margarine and US-style shortening (which is made up of super saturated vegetable oils) are not worth considering. 
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yeah, I know *that problem Dean - I once tried to splain my Fungible Pudding recipe to some of this lot, and ran up against the whole terminology and weights'n'measures wall! But the recipe's worth it I think. 
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