{"id":259,"date":"2011-05-19T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2011-05-19T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:30:00","slug":"how-to-measure-shortening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"How to measure shortening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-MFPLqeler68\/TdUbecA9zgI\/AAAAAAAAPSc\/VUfNWqpFliM\/s1600\/Fullscreen%2Bcapture%2B5192011%2B62722%2BAM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-MFPLqeler68\/TdUbecA9zgI\/AAAAAAAAPSc\/VUfNWqpFliM\/s320\/Fullscreen%2Bcapture%2B5192011%2B62722%2BAM.jpg\"><\/a>If recipe calls for 1\/3 cup, fill measuring cup two-thirds full of water, add enough shortening to bring water to top of cup, pour off water and you have 1\/3 cup of shortening.<\/p>\n<p>This is the method I was taught in my Home Ec class in 8th grade. Man, that was a million years ago! But it works and you don&#8217;t have to try to squish shortening in to a measuring cup wondering if you got it right.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know&#8230;..shortening is not good for you, but combined with butter makes the best pie dough.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?eo=astelin+cost+blue+cross\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If recipe calls for 1\/3 cup, fill measuring cup two-thirds full of water, add enough shortening to bring water to top of cup, pour off water and you have 1\/3 cup of shortening. This is the method I was taught in my Home Ec class in 8th grade. Man, that was a million years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}