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Around the 1930s and 1940s, Arthur Imhausen developed and implemented an industrial process in Germany for producing edible fats by oxidizing synthetic paraffin wax made from coal.

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[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you like colored food, I highly recommend adding pandan to your ingredients cabinet.

Pandan works in place of vanilla, tho much thicker, and it dyes your food a brilliant emerald green. Makes beautiful baked goods.

I used it to make what I called “teenage mutant ninja turtle cheesecake cookies” which were just turtle cheesecake cookies made with pandan so they were green filling with brown accents, and arranged to look like turtles.. and they were a wild success!

Example:

[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that's incredible! 🤩💚 i'll keep an eye out for pandan for sure!

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Check with Asian/Indian groceries; it originates in SE Asia, so that’s the most likely place to find it locally. I got mine online, which is also an option :)