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Spry was a brand of vegetable shortening produced by Lever Brothers starting in 1936. It was a competitor for Procter & Gamble 's Crisco , and through aggressive marketing through its mascot Aunt Jenny had reached 75 percent of Crisco's market share.
Edith Spencer as Aunt Jenny. Aunt Jenny was an advertising character created for Spry Vegetable Shortening.Primarily portrayed by Edith Spencer, Aunt Jenny was best known as host and narrator of the long-lived radio show, Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories (January 18, 1937 – November 16, 1956), [1] but she was also seen promoting the product in drawings, photographs and cookbooks.
Aunt Jenny's recipes often included a mention of her sponsor, Spry shortening. Jimmy Dwan supplied the sound effects of rattling pots and pans. Every day, her friend Danny (announcer Dan Seymour) would drop by for a chat in her kitchen. Then Aunt Jenny would introduce and narrate one of her stories.
Crisco is an American brand of shortening that is produced by B&G Foods.Introduced in June 1911 [1] by Procter & Gamble, it was the first shortening to be made entirely of vegetable oil, originally cottonseed oil.
Spry may refer to: Spry, Pennsylvania; Spry (surname), people with the surname Spry; Spry Vegetable Shortening; Spry, Inc., creator of Internet in a Box, one of the first commercial software packages for connecting to the Internet. Spry framework, an open-source Ajax framework for web development
Shortening is any fat that is a solid at room temperature and is used to make crumbly pastry and other food products. The idea of shortening dates back to at least the 18th century, well before the invention of modern, shelf-stable vegetable shortening. [1] In the earlier centuries, lard was the primary ingredient used to shorten dough. [2]
Fat hydrogenation is the process of combining unsaturated fat with hydrogen in order to partially or completely convert it into saturated fat.Typically this hydrogenation is done with liquid vegetable oils resulting in solid or semi-solid fats.
Spry is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Sir Charles Spry (1910–1994), director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; Constance Spry (1886–1960, née Fletcher), British educator, florist and author