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There is no way to know what they meant when they said "homogenized" - this really sounds like marketing-speak. But if you are trying to whip shortening with water, you will need emulsifiers. I could imagine that the Spry already had them in. The "With cake improver" sentence in the can also points in this direction, as cake improver often contains ...


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The blogger at The Simple Front Porch recommends the recipe, using Crisco in lieu of the Spry's. This vintage advertisement shows a drawing of the can, which is clearly labeled "pure vegetable shortening." The homogenized is clearly marketing speak--after all, any pure vegetable shortening is going to be very homogeneous. It was obviously simply a ...



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