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Lard recipes

Lard is fine, white pork fat that has been rendered and clarified. It is less widely used than it used to be because of its high animal-fat content. It is still used for slow cooking and deep-frying and is said to make the best crisp, flaky pastry.

Lardy cake
by Paul Hollywood

This recipe has a generous amount of dried fruit in a rich dough that’s lighter and less sweet than most shop-bought lardy cakes.

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Showing 1 - 9 of 9lard recipes

McSingh's Scotch pie

by Tony Singh
Light meals & snacks

Meat and potato pie

by Dee Briggs
Main course

Meat patties

by Lisa Hobson
Light meals & snacks

Melandra loaf

by The Hairy Bikers
Cakes and baking

Mexican fish with refried beans

by Rick Stein
Main course

Mini beef Wellingtons

by Martha Collison
Starters & nibbles

Mini Cornish pasties

Starters & nibbles

Mini pear pies

by Paul Hollywood
Cakes and baking

My mother’s cheese and onion pie

by Simon Hopkinson
Main course

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