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It was nearly as delectable as the leaf-lard crust, tasting rich and slightly meaty, though not identifiably beefy.
Cooking with non-trans fats/the Crisco story | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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He had married, three years previous, a Miss Hindle Higginbothom, the only child of a Chicago leaf-lard magnate of household-word kind of fame, and brother-in-law to his father's one-time law partner, O.J. Higginbothom.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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He had grown enormously fat and Rufus G. Higginbothom, dying, had enhanced that glutted look by bequeathing to his only daughter, Hindle, without stipulation, a leaf-lard fortune of some seventeen million dollars.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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That day the authorities -- the police -- had confiscated twenty dressed hogs, and in each porcine carcass they had found four-quart bottles of whisky, artistically imbedded in the leaf-lard fat.
The Hunted Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Cook a dozen small onions, sliced, in a saucepan with one cup of sweet leaf-lard.
American Cookery November, 1921 Various 1892
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But we envy the young farmer the mellow Sunday evenings in her society, the beaming of her slaughter-house eyes, and her tender discourse upon hides, leaf-lard, tripe, plucks, and other bits of scenery.
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