lard

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Fifteen minutes before serving put a frying-pan on with a quantity of lard, and as soon as the lard is lukewarm put in the pieces of bread, turn them as soon as they harden a little on one side.

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  1. noun The white solid or semisolid rendered fat of a hog.
  2. transitive verb To cover or coat with lard or a similar fat.
  3. transitive verb To insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking.
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  • Say what you will-lard is such an easy way of adding a meaty boost to dishes that don't have any actual meat. —  Serious Eats
  • In February Spelling told Us Weekly that she does feel the "pressure" to be thin in Tinseltown and found that losing the lard was much easier after the second pregnancy. —  FOXNews.com
  • "There are for sure some big chains out there that use lard, and I can't say which ones, but I think they will be affected a lot more than us," he said. —  CBS 11 / TXA 21 - Dallas / Fort Worth's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports
  • Food writer Nina Planck, whose 2006 book Real Food is an apologia for the health benefits of traditional foods from butter, lard, and coconut oil to eggs, beef, and-yes-raw milk, is careful to distinguish "safe milk," which "comes from healthy cows in a clean dairy," from the milk that comes from industrial dairies. —  AFF Doublethink Online
  • We're a bona fide cellulite celebration of lard, an orgy of chocolate kisses, mashed potatoes, peppermint bark aged festively with an occasional cranberry daiquiri. —  The Acorn
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  1. Middle English, from Old French larde, from Latin lārdum.

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  1. from Middle English larde, from Old French lard, F. lard, bacon, fat of swine, blubber of whales, etc., = Spanish Portuguese Italian lardo = New Greek λαρδί, from Latin lardum, laridium, larida, the fat of bacon. Cf. Greek λαρινός, fat, λαρός; sweet, pleasant, nice.
  2. from Middle English larden, from French larder = Spanish lardar = Portuguese lardear = Italian lardare, lard; from the noun.
 

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