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  Put Lard Back in Your Larder
Lard, although commonly misidentified as a saturated fat, should really be classified as a monounsaturated fat.
Lard is better suited for pastries because it forms crystals so large they impart a noticeably grainy texture to the dough--which produces wonderful flakiness.
Add lard and use a pastry cutter or fork to cut the lard into pea-sized pieces until the mixture resembles a coarse meal.
www.westonaprice.org /motherlinda/lard.html   (915 words)

  
  Lard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lard was a commonly used cooking oil though its use in contemporary cuisine has diminished because of health concerns posed by saturated fat and cholesterol.
Lard was also held at the same level of popularity as butter in the early 20th century, and was widely used as a substitute for the butter during World War II.
Lard was the commonly used solid fat in the United States prior to the introduction and popularization of Crisco, which is made from hydrogenated cottonseed oil.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lard   (650 words)

  
 Lard - Definition and Characteristics
Lard was widely used as a butter substitute during World War II when butter was unavailable.
The highest grade of lard, known as 'leaf lard', is obtained from the leaf fat that surrounds the kidneys.
Lard is a solid white fat with a distinctive flavor and a high smoking point.
www.soaperschoice.com /soapoils/lard.html   (430 words)

  
 lard - Allrecipes
Lard can be processed in many ways including filtering, bleaching, hydrogenation and emulsification.
In general, processed lard is firmer (about the consistency of vegetable shortening), has a milder, more nutlike flavor and a longer shelf life.
Lard is richer than many other fats and therefore makes extremely tender, flaky biscuits and pastries.
allrecipes.com /howto/lard/detail.aspx   (259 words)

  
 Put Lard Back in Your Larder
Lard was often simply spread on a good slice of bread and then sprinkled with paprika for a snack, used in the preservation of pickles and vegetables to seal the jars, and to make splendid pastries and patés.”
It is also one of our richest dietary sources of vitamin D. Obviously, lard is making a comeback from its nadir after years of vilification by big food corporations eager to push their plastic substitutes (see “The Rise and Fall of Crisco”).
Lard is better suited for pastries because it forms crystals so large they impart a noticeably grainy texture to the dough—which produces wonderful flakiness.
www.motherlindas.com /lard.htm   (963 words)

  
 Our Land, Our Literature: Literature - Rebecca Lard
Lard’s most well known poem is her twelve page book On the Banks of the Ohio.
Lard’s poems are an invaluable source of information on the life and setting of early people in the state of Indiana.
Lard’s works are an expression of the settlers and are an important part of the literature of Indiana.
www.bsu.edu /web/landandlit/authors_rd3/lardr.html   (721 words)

  
 CRB Fundamentals   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lard is the layer of fat found along the back and underneath the skin of a hog.
Lard is also used for medicinal purposes such as ointments, plasters, liniments, and occasionally as a laxative for children.
US production of lard in 2001/2 was 1,058 million pounds, with about 963 million pounds of that production going to domestic use and about 103.0 million pounds to exports (down from 174 million in 2000/1).
www.crbtrader.com /fund/articles/lard.asp   (349 words)

  
 The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Blog Archive » Lard
Lard was one of the hot topics around the picnic area, with people wondering where to obtain lard from organic, sustainably raised pigs.
The texture and appearance of lard was one of the lesser surprises in the Soviet Union.
Lard is very similar to the fat left behind by bacon and pork sausage links, though these cuts come from different parts of the pig than the best grade of lard, leaf lard.
www.ethicurean.com /2006/09/26/lard   (3690 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Lard crisis: mince pies threatened as supplies dwindle
Lard fans regard it as a gastronomic delicacy which makes cakes, pastry and roast potatoes taste fantastic.
He said his business was considering reintroducing fish and chips cooked with lard on to its menus as it had found a fryer which continually filters the cooking fat.
But for lard fans, there is always the lard cam - which shows a fridge crammed with lard.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1351987,00.html   (751 words)

  
 Lard Free - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LARD FREE was a bit the project of Gilbert Hartman much the same way that...
Lard Free's debut is stunning, full of energy and deeply enjoyable.
Lard Free were a legendary all instrumental weird-progressive band from France, who are rarely very well...
music.aol.com /artist/lard-free/18801/main   (153 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Lard lovers face national crisis
Christmas dinners throughout the UK are under threat this year from a shortage of lard as Eastern Europeans stockpile cheap cuts of pork.
Lard can be used to make mince pies, Christmas pudding and roast potatoes.
If the lard mountain keeps melting, professional chefs are recommending that foodies use margarine or cooking oil instead.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4012597.stm   (395 words)

  
 Lard: The New Health Food? | Food & Wine
The one-pound brick of lard in my corner bodega was hydrogenated, as was the 40-ounce tub my favorite butcher carries, along with nearly all the commercial lard available in this country.
Old recipe books tell you that the fat on a hog's back grows thicker than an inch, but modern pigs are bred to be as slim as greyhounds, and compiling enough of their back fat to fry a batch of chicken would mean stopping at every butcher in Brooklyn.
Her shocking answer was "None." I feared for a minute that she was not the same girl I married, until she explained: Since she and lard had no history together, she simply didn't know what to hope for.
www.foodandwine.com /articles/lard-the-new-health-food   (1740 words)

  
 Moses E. Lard
Moses E. Lard was born in Tennessee on October 29, 1818 and experienced a hard­scrabble upbringing.
Behind Lard’s move, however, was a confi­dential promise from John B. Bowman, regent of Kentucky University, to step down in favor of Lard after one year.
Lard’s lecture “Do the Holy Scriptures Teach the Endlessness of Future Punishment?” published as a pamphlet in 1879, deepened doubts about the aging evangelist’s soundness.
www.geocities.com /moseslard   (457 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Pacific NW 09/10/2006: The Real Thing
Lard was once America's most popular cooking fat, but, like the jitterbug, it's been in decline since the '40s.
Lard has more unsaturated fatty acids than saturated, but most importantly, health issues are more greatly affected by total fat (and calorie) consumption than consumption of lard," Sebranek told me.
Lard can be rendered from two kinds of pork fat: back fat or leaf (kidney) fat.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/pacificnw09102006/2003248134_pacificptaste10.html   (736 words)

  
 High on the Hog - New York Times
Every baker knows that despite lard's heavy reputation (it is pig fat, after all), nothing makes a flakier or better-tasting pie crust.
Lard also makes the lightest and tastiest fried chicken: buttermilk, secret spices and ancient cast-iron skillets are all well and good, but the key to fried chicken greatness is lard.
It was useful not just to kosher-keeping cooks like my mother but to city dwellers, who lived far from a reliable source of lard (any Italian cook will still tell you that the only trustworthy lard comes from a pig you know).
www.nytimes.com /2005/08/12/opinion/12kummer.html?ex=1281499200&en=10881d6d8a46930a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (1018 words)

  
 July 17 - Lard: It's What's for Dinner
You might get a pig butchered for a pig roast, but you would normally keep feeding it until it was a hog (unless you live in some other English speaking country, in which case you would be butchering either a big pig or a smaller pig).
Two pigs are better than one for producing lard since two pigs compete for food, eating far more than necessary in their desire to beat out the other pig.
A little aside: if something goes amiss in your lard production and you decide to throw the whole mess away, consider it hazardous waste and dispose of it properly.
www.goatview.com /july17lard.html   (636 words)

  
 Lard, Food Resource [http://food.oregonstate.edu/], Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Bennion, M.; Hanning, F. Decomposition Of Lard In The Frying Of French-Fried Potatoes And Of Fritter-Type Batters.
Sodium Chloride, Autoxidation, Lard, Gel, Sodium Carbomethoxycellulose, Heme, Heme Catalysis
Spectrophotometric Determination Of Melamine And Formaldehyde In Lard.
food.oregonstate.edu /l/lard.html   (1297 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pure Chewing Satisfaction: Music: Lard   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lard features the band along with ex-Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra, and this, the group's second disc, is an electrifying blend of speed, precision, and political satire.
Most importantly Lard, is political, preachy, dark, and therefore, almost sure to affend mainstream conservatives.
Biafra's social messages are filtered through humor, and the humor may sound somewhat dated, but it's an honesty that was reflective of the mid 90's where former President's Bush Sr.
www.amazon.com /Pure-Chewing-Satisfaction-Lard/dp/B000000FBS   (1370 words)

  
 Lard (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jourgensen and Barker are founding members of the industrial metal band Ministry, of which Ward was also once a touring member.
Over the years, several other members of Ministry played with Lard, namely Bill Rieflin, Mike Scaccia, Louis Svitek and Rey Washam.
Like most of Biafra's work, Lard's songs are angrily political (the War on Drugs is a particularly common theme) but often have a tinge of humour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lard_(band)   (215 words)

  
 Homemade Lard   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For each 10 pounds of lard that you started with, add 1 pound of best quality unsalted butter and let it stand in the fat til melted.
Mix gently and ladle off the lard into crocks or however you plan to store it in a cool place.
When all your fat is crisp and your lard out, remove pot from the hot element immediately.
www.hoboes.com /html/Diner/lard.shtml   (524 words)

  
 BNR Metal Pages -- Lard   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lard is one of several Ministry side projects -- this one featuring Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra.
I've not heard The Power Of Lard but have read that it's not as good.
Drummer Jeff Ward passed away a few years ago, though recorded drum tracks of his are featured on one song on PCS.
www.bnrmetal.com /groups/lard.htm   (91 words)

  
 Advanced Biomedical Computing Center:LARD infomation
LARD detects and characterizes recombination between DNA sequences using maximum likelihood.
LARD is decscribed in detail in the following paper: Holmes, E.C., Worobey, M., and Rambaut, A., 1999 "Phylogenetic Evidence for Recombination in Dengue Virus" Molecular Biology and Evolution 16:405.
Local account on SGI systems at ABCC is required to run LARD.
www.abcc.ncifcrf.gov /app/htdocs/appdb/appinfo.php?appname=LARD   (70 words)

  
 Lard - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A slice of bread spread with lard was a typical staple in traditional rural...
As of 2006, Lard have not officially toured and have only performed live a handful...
Download, listen and watch Lard music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/lard/13457/main?tab=album&albumid=276431   (146 words)

  
 TV & Radio Bits - Radioland - Mark and Lard
The breakfast show was clearly the wrong timeslot for the Mancunian twosome's brand of humour, and just seven months later the dynamic duo were moved to the afternoon slot.
Through their sketches, catchphrases, spoof quizzes, playlist-bashing and ten-minute links, they once again built up a loyal audience, albeit one that was somewhat older than what the Radio 1 management would have liked.
Some rare footage of Mark and Lard in the studio, including the Shed of Dread and the Wheel of Misfortune.
www.tvradiobits.co.uk /radio/marklard.htm   (481 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 2 - Mark Radcliffe - Mark & Lard Audio Archive
Before joining Radio 2, Mark Radcliffe used to present a show with the hapless Boy Lard, aka Mark Riley.
Radio gold as Mark and Lard make their debut outing for Radio 1.
Listen to Mark and Lard getting to grips with the early morning slot.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/shows/radcliffe/audio_archive.shtml   (437 words)

  
 lard - OneLook Dictionary Search
Lard : Hormel Glossary of Kitchen and Food Terms [home, info]
Phrases that include lard: leaf lard, lard oil, annatto lard, beat the lard out of s.o, beat the lard out of so, more...
Words similar to lard: aggrandize, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, larded, larding, lardy, pad, blow up, fat, shortening, more...
www.onelook.com /?loc=pub&w=lard   (319 words)

  
 Synonym for lard - Thesaurus - MSN Encarta
Synonym for lard - Thesaurus - MSN Encarta
Search for "lard" in all of MSN Encarta
Synonyms: suet, shortening, peanut oil, corn oil, butter, canola oil, dripping, ghee, lard, margarine, olive oil, rape oil, sesame oil, sunflower oil, vegetable oil, palm oil
encarta.msn.com /thesaurus_/lard.html   (99 words)

  
 CBBC Newsround | WORLD | It's Lard of the Rings
Chef Gary Schofield spent three days carving the 60cm high statue as part of his entry in the Culinary World Cup, held in Luxembourg.
Last year, he carved a lard Harry Potter for another competition.
Gary, who works in Manchester Airport, is already planning a new masterpiece in time for the next international championships this summer.
news.bbc.co.uk /cbbcnews/hi/world/newsid_2688000/2688107.stm   (133 words)

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