Using Lard- recipies and ideas...

[Bensmommy]

So share your best recipes that use lard!!!! Also, where do you get your recipies. I've looked at some recipies from the 1800's, but they all have ingredients that I've never heard of!!!! Those of you with "antique" recipe books, share how you found them please!

[saratc]

Sorry, no real recipes here. I just substitute lard, tallow, or chicken fat for oil in recipes. Also, lard is especially good in pies instead of shortening or butter. I substitute 1 to 1.

[Arduinna]

Biscuits

2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 t salt
1/2 t baking soda
2 t baking powder
4 T lard
1 cup buttermilk

combine flour with salt, soda and baking powder and work in lard with pastry blender or fork until coarse. Add buttermilk and lightly mix by hand until combined. Knead lightly a few times on a floured board and roll and cut biscuits and bake at 450 for 12 minutes or until golden.

As long as you don't overwork the dough this is a very light and flaky biscuit.

[cristeen]

I'm with the pp, I just use it anywhere I feel like that I might otherwise use oil, in any recipe that calls for shortening, and for frying. Most of the time I just use lard for beans... I keep other forms of fat on hand (bacon grease, chicken, duck, goose, coconut oil, butter etc.) and which one I pick depends entirely on the dish I'm making.