Shortening product

Claim 1

A GLYCERIDE SHORTENING COMPOSITION WHICH CAN BE USED IN THE PREPARATION OF RECIPE CAKE BATTERS WITH SINGLESTAGE MIXING CONTAINING AS ADDITIVES FROM ABOUT 1.5% TO ABOUT 12%, BY WEIGHT, OF MONOESTER OF STRAIGHT CHAIN ALIPHATIC DIOL WITH SATURATED FATTY ACID, SAID DIOL CONTAINING FROM 3 TO 5 CARBON ATOMS AND SAID SATURATED FATTY ACID CONTAINING FROM 16 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS, AND FROM ABOUT 0.25% TO ABOUT 4%, BY WEIGHT, OF MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (1) SATURATED FATTY ACIDS CONTAINING FROM 14 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS; (2) THE CONDENSATION PRODUCT OF MATERIAL SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (A) A PARTIAL FATTY ACID GLYCERIDE, CONTAINING AN AVERAGE OF FROM ONE TO TWO FATTY ACID RADICALS HAVING FROM 14 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS, BUT NOT MORE THAN ENOUGH UNSATURATED FATTY ACID RADICALS TO GIVE A CONDENSATION PRODUCT HAVING AN IODINE VALUE OF 60 AND (B) A MONOESTER OF A STRAIGHT CHAIN ALIPHATIC DIOL WITH A SATURATED FATTY ACID ACID, SAID DIOL CONTAINING FROM THREE TO FIVE CARBON ATOMS AND SAID SATURATED FATTY ACID CONTAINING FROM 14 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS WITH A POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID HAVING FROM ZERO TO FOUR HYDROXY GROUPS, SAID POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID CONTAINING THREE TO SIX CARBON ATOMS AND SAID CONDENSATION PRODUCT HAVING AT LEAST ONE FREE CARBOXYL GROUP PER MOLECULE; (3) THE CONDENSATION PRODUCT OF SATURATED FATTY ACID CONTAINING FORM 14 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS WITH A POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID HAVING FROM ONE TO FOUR HYDROXY GROUPS, SAID POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID CONTAINING FROM THREE TO SIX CARBON ATOMS AND SAID CONDENSATION PRODUCT HAVING AT LEAST ONE FREE CARBOXYL GROUP PER MOLECULE; (4) THE CONDENSATION PRODUCT OF A SATURATED STRAIGHT CHAIN FATTY ALCOHOL CONTAINING FROM 14 TO 22 CARBON ATOMS WITH A DICARBOXYLIC ACID HAVING NO HYDROXY GROUP AND CONTAINING FROM 3 TO 6 CARBON ATOMS, SAID CONDENSATION PRODUCT HAVING AT LEAST ONE FREE CARBOXYL GROUP PER MOLECULE; AND (5) MIXTURES OF THE PRECEDING MATERIALS.