Southern mothers know that Crisco is the secret to achieving a perfectly flaky pie crust or a delectably crumbly crisp. When testing a reader recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate-Chip Cookies, our Test ...

Crisco wasn’t invented by or for the German Navy, or for the purpose of lubricating submarines. Hydrogenation, the process by which Crisco is made from vegetable oils, was invented by German chemist ...

From butter to bacon grease, these shortening substitutes will save your weekend baking project. Shortening is hydrogenated, ...

Perhaps you’ll unearth a can of Crisco for the holiday baking season. If so, you’ll be one of millions of Americans who have, for generations, used it to make cookies, cakes, pie crusts and more. But ...

It's difficult to find a more widely known food package recipe than that of the Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies. (Except for maybe Campbell's green bean casserole come late November.

Editor’s note: The following story is part of a feature called Home Grown in which we take a look at the people and products that have made a name for themselves well beyond our Middle Georgia borders ...

JM Smucker Co. is selling its iconic line of Crisco oils and shortening to B&G Foods for $550m cash in a deal that allows it to dedicate more resources to its “core growth platforms” while ...

What would Betty Crocker do? Crisco, the mainstay of cookie-baking moms for decades, is chucking its original formula to eliminate its much-maligned trans fats. The decision, announced Wednesday by ...

Perhaps you’ll unearth a can of Crisco for the holiday baking season. If so, you’ll be one of millions of Americans who have, for generations, used it to make cookies, cakes, pie crusts and more. But ...