Cookbook talk:Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Woops. Your right. Can't grease pan with apple sauce. =)

At any rate, shortening is terribly unsafe for human digestion and I am definitely making alternatives VERY clear in this article, not just because I've researched shortening, but because I've completed this recipe with using vegetable oil and butter, and apple sauce, and they tasted fabulous!

Yeago 02:25, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Oh, come on. Maybe it is not good for you. Perhaps it is worse than oil, or even worse than beef fat. It is however quite easy to show that shortening is not terribly unsafe for human digestion. Look around you. People typically live way past 40, and often past 90. With shortening being such a big part of the normal modern diet, that is proof enough that it is not terribly unsafe for human digestion.

Please don't go vandalizing recipes. The shortening page, linked to from this recipe and others, mentions the issue appropriately and suggests alternatives. There is no need for every recipe involving the stuff to contain a rant about trans fatty acids and heart disease. Heck, even before the recent research, shortening wasn't exactly considered a health food. The same goes for cookies in general, with or without shortening.

AlbertCahalan 02:40, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)