shortening
Crisco, for one
Shortening is solid fat used in baking to make pastry tender and flaky—it "shortens" the gluten strands that would otherwise make dough tough.
Vegetable shortening like Crisco replaced lard in many American kitchens.
More broadly, shortening is the act of making something shorter: the shortening of days in autumn.
Clarified pork fat
- butterSolid fat from cream
- vegetableEdible plant part
- margarineVegetable oil spread
- suetHard animal fat
tallow · hydrogenation · transfat · saturated · unsaturated · palm · coconut · solid
Solid fat from cream
- lardClarified pork fat
- margarineVegetable oil spread
- pastryButtery baked dough
- piecrustBaked dough enclosure
biscuits · dough · flaky · tender · flour · chilled · mixing · rolling-pin
Word made from initials
- initialismSpelled-out letter shortening
- contractionReduction in size
- truncationCutting something shorter
- clippingPiece cut out
ellipsis · shorthand · compression · reduction · curtailment · abridgment · condensation · brevity
Reducing required duration
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- simplificationMaking something less complex
- economySystem of trade and production
speed · productivity · lean · agility · cutting · trimming · reducing · expediting
lard
Clarified pork fat
suet · tallow · hydrogenation · transfat · saturated · unsaturated · palm · coconut · solid · plasticity
butter
Solid fat from cream
piecrust · biscuits · dough · flaky · tender · flour · chilled · mixing · rolling-pin · sifted
acronym
Word made from initials
- initialismSpelled-out letter shortening
- contractionReduction in size
- truncationCutting something shorter
clipping · ellipsis · shorthand · compression · reduction · curtailment · abridgment · condensation · brevity · conciseness
time-saving
Reducing required duration
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- simplificationMaking something less complex
economy · speed · productivity · lean · agility · cutting · trimming · reducing · expediting
compress
Reduce volume by force
shrink · tighten · narrow · squeeze · telescope · consolidate · diminish · lessen · decrease · minimize
- fats and greasesgrease, lard, tallow, suet, animal fat
- making smallershrinking, compressing, reducing, squeezing, compacting
- shorteningabbreviation, abbreviating, abridgment, truncating, truncation
- tailoring termshem, seam, dart, tuck, pleat
- Lipidslipid, fatty acids, free fatty acids, fats, triglycerides
- akutaq ingredientsseal oil, whale blubber, berries, salmonberries, crowberries
shorteninglengthening
Increasing in extent
extension · prolonging · elongation · stretching · extending
shorteningoil
Slippery viscous fluid
vegetable oil · olive oil · cooking oil · butter · lard