Cooking spray is used as a substitute for lard, butter, and other products applied to frying pans and other cookware to prevent food from sticking to it. Popular brands include Pam and Crisco. Lard is an animal fat produced from the fatty or otherwise unusable parts of pig carcasses. ... Balls of butter on a plate Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh cream. ... This page is about the kitchen item. ... Crisco, a popular brand of shortening, was first produced in 1911 by Procter & Gamble, and was the first shortening to be made entirely of vegetable oil. ...