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Cooking & Baking

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4. Lard for pastry is usually leaf lard

Sun Jan 26, 2025, 05:55 PM

Jan 2025

It’s from a special place on the pig. Makes the best pie crust!

https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-leaf-lard-2216904

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Semi-historic food question [View all] chowmama Jan 2025 OP

Surely AI knows how to bake! bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #1

So it's the all-purpose flour that wasn't available chowmama Jan 2025 #5

Most people would use general purpose flour... Lithos Jan 2025 #2

That JoC should probably also moniss Jan 2025 #3

Lard for pastry is usually leaf lard dhol82 Jan 2025 #4

Additionally for fruit pies moniss Jan 2025 #7

I have lard from my Mexican grocery in the freezer. chowmama Jan 2025 #6

LOL!! and I remember the coffee can moniss Jan 2025 #8

A few years back JustAnotherGen Jan 2025 #9

Interesting. surrealAmerican Jan 2025 #10