Well, I will try different saturated fats, i.e., butter, coconut fat, palm fat etc. I know that pork lard is considered healthier, but that would be oldfashioned pork lard, not the heavily processed, ultrawhite version. Crisco, too, is a high tech product. Does make nice pie crust, though. Some people use butter for pie crust, but I think there's no substitute for Crisco or Lard.
We do have desire to avoid pork that has nothing to do with any formal religion.
Off on a tangent here - isn't it strange that when you try to use polyunsaturated oils for cookies, pastries, etc. the result is dreadful. Yet when you use a saturated fat, your product is nice 'n' light. Pretty weird, huh. But our ancestor figured it all out over hundreds of years and it is hard to argue with tradition.
We do have desire to avoid pork that has nothing to do with any formal religion.
Off on a tangent here - isn't it strange that when you try to use polyunsaturated oils for cookies, pastries, etc. the result is dreadful. Yet when you use a saturated fat, your product is nice 'n' light. Pretty weird, huh. But our ancestor figured it all out over hundreds of years and it is hard to argue with tradition.