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Cooking apples are not common here and as such very hard to find. Pectin itself is very difficult to find here and on ebay it's mainly sold by Americans that for some unknown reason insist on screwing Europeans on postage. I know for a fact it does not cost as much as they charge to send things...

Thank for the replies I have certo and bernardin liquid pectin. Surejell is not sold here and is very expensive to import. I did look at the ball site but again all the recipes they have there specify Ball powdered pectin which we can't buy here and costs way too much to import. There are...

I'm a little confused here as to what I could have done wrong. I made strawberry jam following the instructions I found here: National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I? Jam and Jelly I followed those instructions to the letter and the jam did not set. I then followed the...

I don't want chicken and dumplings that's thicker, I want chicken stew with dumplings, there is a distinction there :) Like I said the dumplings are not a big deal they just get added in the last 30 minutes of cooking time so what I am looking for is a slow cooker chicken stew recipe that does...

Maybe someone here can help me. I am looking for a good Slow Cooker recipe for chicken stew and dumplings. Major point though I want one that DOES NOT use canned condensed cream of chicken soup. The dumplings themselves are no big deal I can do those with my eyes closed the big thing is the...

Well the main thing is doughnuts if the water content is wrong then the dough will be too thin or too think and my dropper will not work right. Plus it may affect the rising as well but I'll try it with margarine and see what happens

Margarine is again higher in water content so a direct substitution would not work

Margarine is available everywhere :)

You can't buy Lard here either. Plus Lard is rendered animal fat where shortening is Vegetable fat so in the case of cakes and such I don't think it would affect the taste in a very good way :)

First off just let me point out that I live in The Netherlands. I have a few recipes that are from the US and they call for "Crisco Shortening" Now I realise that Criso is just a brand name but I have a problem. You can't buy Shortening here so I need to find a substitute to use in the...

My name is Barry I'm a 39 year old Male living in the Netherlands. I was not born here however so I am not Dutch I was born in England and was raised in Canada I'm not sure what else to say about myself as I was never very good at this sort of thing.