If your pastry recipe called for hydrogenated fat and you wanted to substitute butter, you would use:
A) It is not desirable to substitute butter for hydrogenated fat
B) Less butter, since it is not as plastic as hydrogenated fat
C) More butter as it is only 80% fat
D) Same amount of butter since fat is fat
E) None of the above

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Butter contains about 80% fat, while hydrogenated fats are nearly 100% fat. Therefore, to achieve the same fat content in a recipe, you would need to use more butter to compensate for its lower fat percentage.

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