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What is Lard used for?
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myrnahaz
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Am I missing out on something OS? I thought lard was a banned substance?
I heard a young guy call out to his wife in Asda 'do we need lard' and she shouted back 'no, we're ok for lard'. Why would they need lard - they only looked about 20 years old (though they had a definite look of the 'bad option' from 'honey we're killing the kids').
I heard a young guy call out to his wife in Asda 'do we need lard' and she shouted back 'no, we're ok for lard'. Why would they need lard - they only looked about 20 years old (though they had a definite look of the 'bad option' from 'honey we're killing the kids').
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I do my roast potatoes in lard sometimes. And I put a block of lard in the hole when planting roses.The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.0
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My mum uses lard for her pastry, i use 50/50 with marg (or butter, depends on how healthy im feeling!!!)0
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wigginsmum wrote:I put a block of lard in the hole when planting roses.
Oh my, that's a new one on me. What does it do exactly?Herman - MP for all!
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Same as manure; it feeds 'em and they thrive on it - roses are greedy beggars. If I don't have lard I use fish blood & bone.The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.0
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Lard can be used in pastry and also is great for cooking roast potatoes and yorkshire puddings in. You just put it in the tins in the oven and get it really hot and then pour in your yorkshire pudding batter or pop in your roasties.
It's not the healthiest options as it's saturated fat but I believe that as an occasional thing it is probably better than margarines which are processed and mostly have 'evil' hydrogenated veg oils in :eek:Tess x
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I'm with catowen...50/50 with marge or butter makes for a lovely crispy pastry...don't tend to use it for anything else though, usually use olive oil for cooking, gives roast potatoes and wedgies a lovely flavour and crunch.People Say that life's the thing - but I prefer reading
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I thought it was used in pasty and also for greasing cake tins0
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I dont use lard but I do use dripping for chips. I melt about a matchbox sized piece in the bottom of the baking tray and cook the chips in the oven.2008 Comping ChallengeWon so far - £3010 Needed - £230Debt free since Oct 20040
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Dripping is the best thing for chips-yum.
I'm with Otterspasm,not the healthiest thing around but occasional pastry making,and definitely better than hydrogenated veg oil
I've never heard of the gardening thing though-wow,the things you learn here!0 -
myrnahaz wrote:... (though they had a definite look of the 'bad option' from 'honey we're killing the kids').
You can't make *real* pastry w/out lard and you definately can't make roast potatoes or *real* Yorkshire pudding without proper dripping.
Oopsie - must sign myself up for HWKTK!!
If anyone followed the true old fashioned maxim of: " A little of what you fancy does you good" instead of the modern affliction of "gluttony" in most things ... we wouldn't have such an obesity/health time bomb on our hands.
Lard per se is not harmful if used in moderation and wisely. Nor is salt, or many other things on the *bad* list. And if it *is* used in moderation and wisely, it does not make us bad people or bad parents or contagious ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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