Excellent advice but please be aware that the dairy-free shortening and butter you recommend contains palm oil. It's hard to find a better example of greenwash than palm oil. A small percentage of the palm oil we use comes from sustainable sources but it is mixed--before you buy--with the vast proportion that comes from plantations where virgin tropical rainforest was destroyed to clear the land. Orang-utans, for example, now face the threat of extinction because of this practice. It would be great if King Arthur Flour could take an ethical stance on this issue and no longer promote the use of palm oil. Better still, maybe at KAF you could actively educate your customers (and yourselves) on this issue? It is our increasing demand for palm oil that has created this problem, nothing else.

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