On Valentine's Day, you'll find a four-course dinner for $60 that starts off with grilled flatbread with smoked white bean puree, figs and blue cheese, followed by appetizer choices such as roasted cauliflower soup with bacon lardoons and clams.
Along the way, someone realized that these little lardons (or lardoons) were quite tasty when cooked until much of the fat is rendered out.— The Kitchn
Cut half a pound of fat salt pork into lardoons, or strips, two or three inches long and about half an inch square.— The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes
INGREDIENTS.--The best end of a neck of veal (about 2-1/2 lbs lardoons, 2 carrots, 2 onions, a faggot of savoury herbs, 2 blades of mace, 2 bay-leaves, a little whole white pepper, a few slices of fat bacon Mode_.--Cut away the lean part of the best end of a neck of veal with a sharp knife, scooping it from the bones.— The Book of Household Management
INGREDIENTS.--A Guinea-fowl, lardoons, flour, and salt Mode_.--When this bird is larded, it should be trussed the same as a pheasant; if plainly roasted, truss it like a turkey.— The Book of Household Management

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