This is a 1:1 swap; so if a recipe calls for ½ cup shortening, trade in ½ cup unsalted butter. Feel free to use margarine as a vegetable shortening substitute. Plan on adding 1 additional ...

It seems every baking recipe calls for unsalted butter, yet sometimes salt is added to the recipe. Unsalted butter is never on special and I wondered if it makes such a big difference in baking?

All of us, at some point, have run into a butter dilemma. You reach into the fridge looking for butter only to be met with options: salted, unsalted. Can they be used interchangeably? Or, perhaps, a ...