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Discover LudwigThe word "lard" is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used to refer to the fat of a pig, and it is generally used in cooking contexts. Example sentence: "The chef rendered the lard to use in the fried potatoes."
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lard
verb
To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking
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In a large mixing bowl, rub the butter and lard into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Make a well in the centre, pour in the yeast mixture and mix well, adding the butter and lard.
Use the lard or chicken fat (nature's own MSG) and home-made stock to add intensity and enhance the savoury flavours of a wokful of vegetables.
Salo is a concentrated energy, a quintessence of national values The museum has photoshopped a piece of meat into the famous image of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing East German Erich Honecker, and the restaurant has been known to serve the lard shaped into the heads of political and historical figures.
At twilight we walk out back together through the wet spring air and watch his assistant chefs turn hot stones in an open pit fire on to which they pile fresh clams, mussels, potatoes, fava beans, smoked pork, chicken and dough patties called chochoca made from baked potato, flour and pork lard.
Shortcrust is the obvious choice for a fully enclosed pie, though Andy Bates goes for a sturdy hot water crust instead, using butter rather than the lard more often found in pork pies.
Simon Hopkinson uses a combination of lard and butter in the shortcrust for his mother's cheese and onion pie, the Hairy Bikers and Lancashire chef Nigel Haworth add egg yolks, and Angela Boggiano uses butter alone in her book Pie.
Get good lard (or make your own) and keep the fat that solidifies after roasting pork or chicken, grilling bacon or making stock.
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A columnist describes Vicky Pollard, an archetypal chav created for a TV comedy programme, as emblematic of the aforementioned "dismal ineducables" and "pasty-faced, lard-gutted slappers" supposedly infesting the nation's public housing.
The Guardian, the descendant of Mr Cooke's old paper, routinely presents Americans as bloodthirsty lard-arses.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIT WOULD be quite hard these days for a national newspaper columnist to get away with describing black people as "dismal ineducables" or "lard-gutted slappers".
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