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Oil

A neutral cooking oil for frying and dressing. In these recipes that means a refined oil such as rapeseed, sunflower, or peanut, pressed from the seed and cleaned of strong flavour.

Origin

Pressed from oilseeds grown in many farming regions.

Flavour

Little flavour of its own, which is the point.

How to use it

Use it wherever a recipe says oil and does not name a flavoured one.

Storage

Sealed, cool, and out of the light.

Recipes using it

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