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Would not like to boast - but I do my own organic extra virgin cold pressed olive oil from my own olives I pick myself

And I do my own balsamic vinegar

And vintage vinegar


Renes

Aint got a Sainsbury close,and I use either Grapeseed or Olive oil to cook with.

But for pastry which I am ace at I use Stork Margerine,the block one.

But I am rubbish at cakes,of any kind,they all sink..

Which thread JC?You have so many...

But neither of them seem to be Canola Gins ???

Not to worry - I will stick to the 'unhealthy' butter ..... YYYuuummm !!!

Dea x

Like my lifelong nonsmoking vegetarian barely-40 little sister and colorectal cancer.

Speaking of which ... anybody missed my thread on Chat? ;)

Olive oil in our house....mild for cooking and extra virgin for salads and dressings etc

They are both oils Dea....

When big bro had heart attack the docs said use Grapeseed oil along with Olive oil

Strange thing is he is the healthiest among us all..slim, non smoker, mad exercise freak and eats very healthy.

What kind of oil do you people cook with?

Canola is the best most healthful there is, you shouldn't cook with anything else. (Except olive oil, which isn't good for everything.) It's the only kind I use for anything -- stir-frying, in recipes, whatever.

I'm pants at pastry. I coat the kitchen in it when I try. And it is just way too much work. That's why I like this one. ;)

Are we on 'Grapeseed' oil or 'Rapeseed' Oil - You are getting me confused now you two??

Dea x

Sainsburys...and you can get Grapeseed oil which is very good for you

Im very good at pastry but I cook it with either butter or solid veg oil....either way JB gets heartburn so I dont bother

Yeah, I will try that and maybe do a meat an spud pie (Quorn)....with mash and peas

Thanks 'sweatpea'.....YIKES.....

Faneeeee...help

Where do I get Canola /Rapeseed oil in the sticks in Wales when they seem to export it all to Canuckstan??

Think on it Fan...

And inside, I put chopped up cooked chicken, leeks, carrots and mushrooms. And undiluted tinned mushroom soup for mushiness. I wonder what we're having for supper ... got two of those things in the freezer still ...

Why not cook some and find out Gins?
The proof of the pudding and all that??

Sounds a bit like suet pudding pastry...Which you can make with veggie suet Gins...yum..

Me gonna cook Janey recipe tomorrow(for real) ,sounds good..
Steak and kidney I reckon,...one of my favourites.

When you beat the oil and milk together, it becomes quite thick and emulsified and all. Try it. ;) It doesn't stick together as well as with shortening, but it works in a preformed thing like a pie plate. You don't roll it out, you just press it into the plate.


I edited the recipe, I hadn't adjusted everything. Think that way should work now.

No I googled.....it sounds good without the heartburn too but how does it stick together?

Is it due to more flour than oil?

Is that my version of the canola oil pastry Ginny? It seems a little different.

I don't use the sugar, of course. Or the salt.

But I'm sure mine calls for - hang on, I have it right in my gmail here - yeah, 3 tablespoons milk.

And because your cups are bigger (but you'll okay with all the rest because they're consistent units -- but you will get a very big pie crust) you should up the milk to 4 tablespoons I think.

I'd do my version, adjusted for you

1 cup flour
1/2 cup canola oil
3 tbsp cold milk

-- edit edit -- try that again

1 cup flour
1/3 cup canola oil
2.5 tbsp milk

-- should be right for English measuring units --

You have to beat the oil and milk together to make it creamy and thick. Then pour it into the flour, right in the pie plate, mix it thoroughly and form it into a crust.

It isn't flaky like a good short crust, but it's quite good all the same, especially for savoury pies. I made chicken leek etc pies with it last week, even managed to roll out lids for it (just patched 'em where they came apart), and they're very good.

Hang on...how does the pastry set if you use a liquid fat?

Do you drop an egg in?

Ooh...thanks for that. I might try that.

Modena......Balsamic vinegar

It has to be a really good one though, the ones that are about £15 per small bottle please

The cheap ones are just vinegar...ewwe

Just right click Fanny and rotate!!

I dunno. What's Modena? If it's some kind of cheese, no. I don't like cheese, except cooked in things.

What's canola oil?? When my mum and I were travelling around England by train and bus, we were struck by field after field of yellow-flowering something. My mum decided it must be mustard. Yeah, right, enough mustard to feed the world.

So we asked the bus driver on the way to Stonehenge, where there was lots of it growing in the vicinity. He got flustered because he could only remember the old name for it: rapeseed.

What's canola oil. Yeesh.

When it got renamed, it was for Canuckistan, of course!