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Home → Ingredients → Shortening

Shortening

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7 recipes
Grandma's Homemade Biscuits
10 biscuits 22 m Beginner

Grandma's Homemade Biscuits

Robin Petit
St. John the Baptist Laplace, St. John the Baptist Parish
Single Crust Plain Pastry for Pies or Mini Crust
1 single 9-inch crust 25 m Intermediate

Single Crust Plain Pastry for Pies or Mini Crust

Mawmaw
Vermilion Kaplan, Vermilion Parish
Baking Powder Biscuits
8 biscuits 25 m Beginner

Baking Powder Biscuits

Mawmaw Johnson
Buttermilk Biscuits
24 biscuits 30 m Beginner

Buttermilk Biscuits

Mawmaw Johnson
Million Dollar Cookie
60 cookies 25 m Beginner

Million Dollar Cookie

Betty Gaspard
Vermilion Forked Island, Vermilion Parish
Never Fail Pastry
1 double-crust pie 15 m Beginner

Never Fail Pastry

C. Breaux
Mom-Mom's Tarts
Makes about 24 tarts 38 m Intermediate

Mom-Mom's Tarts

Alberta LeBlanc
Vermilion Kaplan, Vermilion Parish

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