If a recipe calls for lard what exactly do they mean and can you get it at the store?

Answer 1

Actual lard is animal fat. Yes you can buy it at the store in the meat or freezer section. Or you can exchange it in the recipe for Crisco shortening or any other lower fat shortening.
Lard is all they had up to the early twentieth century. You must have an old recipe!!

Answer 2

Lard is rendered pork fat. It is usually found with shortening on the aisle with cooking oil etc. You may see it labeled as manteca. This is Spanish for lard. Most people nowadays use vegetable shortening as a substitute because of cholesterol. Lard does give better results for some things like pie crust and biscuits. At least I think so.

Answer 3

Lard is fat! 100 Percent FAT!!! That's all. And, yes, absolutely, you can get it in a grocery store. Although these days, you may have a harder time, than ever before, finding it, since fat is such a taboo topic and item! Check your dairy department for lard, as I imagine it would have to be refreigerated! If it's not there, just ask someone at the customer service desk of the store! They'll point you in the right direction! Good luck! What are you making???!!!

Answer 4

Lard is animal fat. You can get it at the grocery store - just ask someone in the meat department to point you in the right direction. Here in LA, you mostly see it where Mexican people shop, and they call it "manteca" or "manteca animal," which is pretty important to know, since in this region, most English-speaking people don't cook with it and they don't often label it any other way. I've seen it both in blocks wrapped up with cellophane on a styrofoam tray in the meat section, and in tubs.

Answer 5

Lard is just pure animal fat. It's white. I get a bucket of it near the meat section (unrefrigerated) at the store. It's not healthy, but it really works in certain dishes, especially latino.

Answer 6

Usually pork, occasionally with a little beef. Horse and donkey have been used to make salami and are considered a delicacy. I have had turkey salami but I am not a real fan as it was rather tasteless. Kosher salami is made with beef but is a cooked product as are the chicken substitutes available from (Turkish) halal outlets. Like all sausages fresh, dried or smoked you get what you pay for. It is pure prejudice to assume all sausages are EI-EI-O meat (earoles, arseoles & eyeoles). Most Italian salami is a quality product, available at a premium price and thoroughly delicious and wholesome.

Answer 7

You can use shortening like Crisco. NOT butter flavored. Yes, you can get it in any store. Also, if you want to use real lard, look in the refrigerated section of the supermarket. It'd be with the butter/margarine.

Answer 8

lard is a fancy name for FAT. and yeah you can get it at the store

Answer 9

They want you to use fat that is a solid at room temperature. The best thing to use is a shortening like Crisco. When heated its just like vegetable oil.

Answer 10

It will depend on the fruit or plant linked to a comparison. In the event that you compare a farrenheit to a carrot, the carrot is the better of the two nutritional. But once you compare an avocado to the carrot, then your avocado is better. Both equally the apple and avocado, are fruits.