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@katydidthat wrote:
Chuk, I may have written a lot about making pastry, but it only takes a short while to actually make it.

Your great aunt in law and your mum are both right.

I have to make my own pastry as I'm allergic to margarine ...

I have this theory, that there are some things that otherwise good cooks JUST CAN'T DO. I'm not very good with cakes ... but, again, I have to make my own. In the "good old days" when my son was younger, I used to make three for his birthday parties ... one was a spare, LOL.

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Apparently margarine was invented to fatten up pigs (as part of their food) when it KILLED the pigs a new market had to be found.

As it didn't fatten the pigs before they died, they figured it was not fattening.

THe new market turned out to be for humans as a diet replacement for butter,  a perfectly natural and healthy oil.

Buckets of butter for pig food is expensive but healthy, buckets of margarine are cheap but deadly.

Pigs are the animal most like humans, and margarin killed the pigs..

GO FIGURE!