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Cooking Up A Better Butter

Now home bakers can have their cake (and their cookies, and their brownies) and eat it, too, without fear of fat overload.

Mrs. Bateman’s Baking Butter, the brainchild of Rigby, Idaho nutritionist Kristine Bateman, is a butter-flavored fat substitute that contains only 13 grams of fat per cup, compared to 176 for real butter.

While it includes a bit of butter and soybean oil, the main ingredient is maltodextrin, a starch that comes from corn, rice and potatoes. And it keeps for six months in the fridge - assuming your willpower lasts that long.

Price: $2.09 for a 1-pound tub in stores; $8.99 plus $5 shipping for a 5-pound tub by mail (call 1-800-574-6822).

Available: Albertson’s supermarkets in Spokane.

MEMO: Do you have a food find? Send it to: Food Finds, Features Department, The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210. Call 459-5446; fax 459-5098.

Do you have a food find? Send it to: Food Finds, Features Department, The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210. Call 459-5446; fax 459-5098.