The US Military's 26-page Brownie Recipe
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Shortening shall be a refined, hydrogenated vegetable oil or combination of refined vegetable oils which are in common use by the baking industry. Coconut and palm kernel oils may be used only in the coating. The shortening shall have a stability of not less than 100 hours as determined by the Active Oxygen Method (AOM) in Method Cd 12-57 of the
4MIL-C-44072C Commercial Fats and Oils chapter in the Official and Tentative Methods of the American Oil Chemists Society.
