Lard shortenings

Claim 1

PLASTIC SHORTENING AT LEAST 90% O WHICH IS MADE FROM A LOW TEMPERATURE DIRECTEDLY REARRANGED AND PARTAILLY HYDROGENATED MIXTURE OF TRIGLYCERIDES CONSISTING AT LEAST 80% OF THE TRIGLYCERIES OF LARD AND NOT OVER 20% OF THE TRIGLYCERIES OF EDIBLE TALLOW, THE REMAINING 0% TO 10% OF THE SHORTENING CONSISTING OF GLYCERIDIC FATS ADAPTABLE TO USE AS COMPONENTS OF PLASTIC SHORTENINGS, SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF MONOGLYCERIDES, DIGLYCERIDES, AND TRIGLYCERIDES OF LARD, OF EDIBLE TALLOW, OF RANDOMLY REARRANGED LARD, OF PALM OIL AND OF PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, CORN OIL, SOYBEAN OIL, SUNFLOWER SEED OIL, LINDSEED OIL, AND PEANUT OIL, AND MIXTURES OF ANY OF THESE AT LEAST A FOURTH AND NOT OVER HALF OF THE SATURATED FATTY ACID RADICALS OF SAID DIRECTEDLY REARRANGED MIXTURE BEING COMBINED AS TRISATURED TRIGLYCERIDES PRIOR TO ITS PARTIAL HYDROGENATION, SAID SHORTENING HAVING A PLASTIC RANGE AS HEREIN DEFINED OF AT LEAST 21* F. AND A POLYUNSATURATES NUMBER AS HEREIN DEFINED NO HIGHER THAN 16, THE POINT REPRESENTING THE PLASTIC RANGE AND THE POLYUNSATURATES NUMBER OF SAID SHORTENING BEING ABOVE DIAGONAL LINE OF FIGURE 4.