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What is Lard used for?
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Lard.
Pastry, half and half with marg for excellent pastry. Frying chips, or roasting spuds, making lardy cake or in bread instead of butter when using the breadmaker. It is rendered down pork and or beef fat, so a saturated fat. ok in moderation. I keep a block in the fridge for pastry.
Living in the sunny? Midlands, where the pork pies come from:
saving for a trip to Florida and NYC Spring 2008
Total so far £14.00!!0 -
I fry using lard, I know where it comes from, what's in it, plus it's cheap. I feel like I can't say the same about most cooking oils. It's ok in small amounts. Society is way too obsessed with eating the right foods. What makes me laugh is that these ridiculous TV shows basically tell us it's better for us to eat imported food rather than local produce!!! As far as I'm concerned my ancestors ate local produce therefore my body is built to do the same£4000 challenge
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I know what you mean,I get so annoyed with Gillian McKeith when she lays out that spread of imported fruit and veg,seeds,and grains.All those avocados,mangos,quinoa,sweet potaotoes-sooo expensive.Why doesn't she give more emphasis to oats,barley,cabbage,carrots and apples? It just makes healthy eating seem exotic and expensive when it needn't be.
I'm not sure I'd fry with lard as a matter of course,I do prefer olive oil or sunflower oil,plus a bit of English butter.0 -
agreed lard in pastry/roasties/ very nice!!....however as lard is a "fat" and fats are insoluble in water i dont see the benefit of using a lard as a plant food.0
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Bread & Dripping sandwiches sprinkled with salt & pepper and a mug of Cocoa.................forgive me if I am wrong, but I have always thought lard was dripping! My Nan and Mum always had a bowl of dripping and I used to hate the jelly but mum always said I would grow up big and strong ...and I did and certainly not over weight.SallyD0
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Lard can be used to make soap as can other fats like cocoa butter or shea and is much cheaper if you starting old soap making.0
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super recipe from mary berry
225g plain flour, 1 level teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon mixed spice, 1 teaspoon ground ginger, 150 g golden syrup, 150 gms black treacle, 100g dark soft brown sugar, 100 g lard; 2 eggs, 2 tablespoon milk beaten together.
oven 160 c gas mark3 grease and line 20 cm sq tin or a 2lb loaf tin put the flour baling powder spice 7 ginger in bowl mix together and make awellincentre place syrup treacle sugar and lard in saucepan heat gently until lard and sugar are melted then stir into the flour with the eggs and milk beat throughly
pour into tin bake in oven for 45 mins should be shrunk from sides of tin cool wrap and store for 2/3 days in airtight tin do wait its worth it. slice and butter yummy0 -
SallyD wrote:Bread & Dripping sandwiches sprinkled with salt & pepper and a mug of Cocoa.................forgive me if I am wrong, but I have always thought lard was dripping! My Nan and Mum always had a bowl of dripping and I used to hate the jelly but mum always said I would grow up big and strong ...and I did and certainly not over weight.
Lard is rendered pork fat0 -
I think they have stopped hvf in Stork now, I checked the tubs the other day in Sainsburys.We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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I was just popping in to say the same thing about Stork soft marg Doddsy. Says on the tub there are no hydrogenated fats and virtually no trans fats. I bought some recently to use half and half with butter in my cakes, to try to make baking a bit cheaper.
Also, bought some lard recently although haven't done so in years, again to use half and half with butter in pastry, same reason as above.
I am truly awful as I just love the drippings from roasts and often mop it up from the pan with bread before making the gravy. :eek: If not doing gravy I let it set and then have it on hot toast with salt and pepper. My children think I am disgusting0
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