Greasing a Pan

Ok, I am going to be cooking tomorrow (for the first time in a LONG time.....).  So, what do I use to grease a pan?  I think at home I would have used Crisco, but I'm assuming that doesn't exist here.  Any tips?

I'm off to Cheltenham in a few to use some of my wedding gift vouchers to buy a cooking pan and some cookie sheets!!! (for Christmas cookies!!)

It depends on what you are making. If it is cake or cookies I always use a bit of oil, spread around and then a dusting of flour. If I am cooking something savory like a casserole, I use just a bit of oil spread around in the pan. Another good thing to use is the wrapping from the butter.

You can use Trex (found in the dairy aisle near the butter) in place of Crisco.  I generally use olive oil depending upon what I cook.  I suppose you could use vegetable oil too.

For tomorrow, I am making Pumpkin bread in a mold from Williams Sonoma.  Pamela, I think your idea of the butter wrapper might be good for this.  What do you think?

Thanks!

from another Pamela --I use butter wrappers as well or failing that a piece of kitchen roll with butter on it.  I suppose what to grease with really is up to the cook and what type of dish it is. 

I tend to use butter for cookies and cakes and like Cait I use olive oil for savoury things. 

I have never been one to use parchment, but I have just started to use it for some cakes and things...

When you say a piece of kitchen roll, do you mean a roller?  I'm going to buy some pans, etc today so I'll buy a roller too if need be!

kitchen roll is paper towel.

to grease a pan, i use butter, marg, Trex, or white Flora.

Thanks otter --would you believe I forgot the US word for it!  Lord....

 

believe me, i know how that is! 

I wonder if it's age or being away from the US for so long.  Or both!   I sympathise cos it happens to me too.

Thanks for the education!!  I was thinking that I'd better catch on quick because when we have kids I can't have them saying, truck, etc....!!!!

I use mazola spray to grease pans....I get it at my local store so I dont know if you guys can get it on the mainland...but I know tesco's have a cooking spray as well...you have to get the spray not the squirt.....

Oohhhh...good one!!  We have fry light spray.  Do you think that will work?  I'll look for the other today and go to Tesco's.  Thanks!

Another tip that I got from a cooking show, if you are making a cake from a mix, when greasing the pan, instead of sprinkling some flour onto the pan, sprinkle a tiny bit of the powdered cake mix.  Then you won't have a flour taste to your cake and, if it is an uniced cake, you won't see a dusting of white on the top.

MeShell, is the cooking spray at Tescos the aerosol kind?  The cooking spray that I bought when I first moved here is a pump (like hairspray) and it is really pointless for getting an even layer of oil.  Is that what you mean when you say spray vs. squirt?