noun
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Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
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Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
verb
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To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
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To smear with fat or lard.
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To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
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To fatten; to enrich.
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To grow fat.
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To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
Examples of lard in a Sentence
In Iowa the Berkshire is a combined lard and bacon pig in high favour.
Lard reaches Great Britain chiefly from the United States.
She quickly whipped up pancake dough and placed a large iron skillet over the fire with some lard in it.
Then allow them to cool, and when cold dip into egg, then into bread crumbs, and fry in boiling lard.
I shall not lard my words with terms that are not used daily.
By the time Bordeaux returned with the cut up snakes, she had lard sizzling in a large skillet.
Largely present in olive oil and other saponifiable vegetable oils and soft fats; also present in animal fats, especially hog's lard.
By blending the coco-nut oil with other less saponifiable substances such as tallow, lard, cotton-seed oil, &c., and effecting the mixing and saponification at a slightly higher temperature, soaps are obtained which resemble milled toilet soaps.
Its principal imports are coffee (of which it is the greatest continental market), tea, sugar, spices, rice, wine (especially from Bordeaux), lard (from Chicago), cereals, sago, dried fruits, herrings, wax (from Morocco and Mozambique), tobacco, hemp, cotton (which of late years shows a large increase), wool, skins, leather, oils, dyewoods, indigo, nitrates, phosphates and coal.
Although an agricultural country, Brazil does not produce all its own bread and meat, and the imports of wheat, wheat flour, rice, fish, jerked beef and preserved meats, lard, butter, beans, potatoes, packed fruits and vegetables, Indian corn and other food-stuffs, are surprisingly large.
Goats are raised in Piura and Lambayeque for their skins and fat, and swine-breeding for the production of lard has become important in some of the coast valleys immediately north of Lima.
The imports include wheat, flour, Indian corn, jerked beef (carne secca), lard, bacon, wines and liquors, butter, cheese, conserves of all kinds, coal, cotton, woollen, linen and silk textiles, boots and shoes, earthenand glasswares, railway material, machinery, furniture, building material, including pine lumber, drugs and chemicals, and hardware.
It has an important trade in corn, timber, horned cattle, pigs and horses, fowls, dairy produce and lard; and considerable manufactures, including machinery, cast-iron, copper and brass goods, calico, gunpowder, oil, paper, articles in felt, flour, leather and biscuits.
The leading imports are grains, flour, lard and various other foodstuffs, coal, lumber, petroleum and machinery, all mainly from the United States; wines and olive oil from Spain; jerked beef from South America; fabrics and other staples from varied sources.
In 1807, inspired by his study of Dante, he published his first work Abi lard and Dulcin, a defence of scholasticism and medieval thought.
Similar methods are employed in the production of lard oil, edible cotton-seed oil, &c. For refining oils and fats intended for edible purposes only the foregoing methods, which may be summarized by the name of physical methods, can be used; the only' chemicals permissible are alkalis or alkaline earths to remove free fatty acids present.
Thus in the case of neroli oil the petals of orange blossom are loosely spread on trays covered with purified lard or with fine olive oil.
It gave each Roman soldier a daily lard ration, as well as bringing the banger to Britain 1,500 years before the mash arrived.
You get the impression Lee would come up grinning if you poured a bucket of three-year-old lard over his blond head.
Discard the solid bits and add extra dripping, lard or butter if necessary.
Remove with a slotted spoon and repeat with the remaining 2/3rds of the meat adding a little more lard or oil if necessary.
In the country around Birmingham, the word scratching sometimes meant a specific dish of diced, fried lard eaten with pepper and salt.
Extra points for barbecuing those white sausages that look like they are pure lard!
Ask an adult to help you melt the lard.
Most ready made pastry uses lard The use of Italian parmesan cheese.
The latest is a piece of resistance by one Rod Liddle, entitled Let them eat lard.
A tray containing lard or solid fat can also do the trick.
Pork Pies Melton Mowbray raised pork Pies Melton Mowbray raised pork pies are made from lard pastry, filled with chopped pork, topped off with pork jelly.
Lard and beef tallow Lard and beef tallow are the fats derived from pigs and cows, respectively.
Swine do well in all parts of the country, especially in Minas Geraes, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Parana and Rio Grande do Sul, and domestic pork and lard are' slowly supplanting the heavily-taxed foreign products.
Gum benzoin, which contains from 12 to 20% of benzoic acid, is used in medicine as the essential constituent of benzoated lard, Adeps benzoatus, which owes its antiseptic properties to benzoic acid; and in friar's balsam, Tinctura benzoini composita, which is an ancient and valuable medicament, still largely used for inhalation in cases of laryngitis, bronchitis and other inflammatory or actually septic conditions of the respiratory tract.
In the case of those animal fats which are intended for edible purposes, such as lard, suet for margarine, the greatest cleanliness must, of course, be observed, and the temperature must be kept as low as possible in order to obtain a perfectly sweet and pure material.
Thicken up runny low-fat yogurt by stirring in a spoonful of lard.
Ultima Thule say The rarest Lard Free, with Richard Pinhas.
Substitute saturated animal fats such as butter and lard with unsaturated vegetable oils like olive, mustard, canola and sunflower oil.
For example, butter, lard, and shortening are all either trans fats or saturated fats, both of which have been associated with heart disease and increased cholesterol levels.
Lard - Pork fat used for frying and baking.
Traditionally, shortening is a shelf-stable substitute for lard.
Also known as pig fat, lard can be used to make flaky biscuits and pie crusts.
Lard tastes great and makes whatever you're cooking more delicious, but it isn't at all healthy.
There are some people who use lard in their pie crust recipe.
So have I and I have gotten very good results with it, but I have found lard to be difficult to find from time to time.
In soap making, you can melt old bits of soap, glycerin soap blocks, or solid fat such as lard or tallow.
Lard, butter, and any oil will round out your basics.
Traditionally, lard was used in soap because it was readily available after the pigs were slaughtered down on the farm.
In the good old days people used lard and lye, but there were no scientific formulas or recipes for soap.
First of all, you will need a form of fat, such as lard or vegetable oil.
If you're using a solid fat, like lard, heat it until it's melted.
Many like to use lard or tallow in place, in full or in part, of the palm oil.
If oil must be used in certain recipes, you can make them healthier by choosing unsaturated fats such as canola, safflower and olive oil instead of vegetable oil, palm oil, vegetable shortening, and lard.