Name: Compressed Lard
Ingredients: ½ cup butter; ½ cup good firm lard; ¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt

Compressed Lard

Ingredients

½ cup butter
½ cup good firm lard
¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt

Directions

Combine butter and lard in a bowl.
Sprinkle salt over the mixture.
Use a rolling pin to spread the dough.
Cut into desired shapes and bake.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Butter: Adds fat and rich flavor, and helps give the shortbread its tender, crumbly texture.
Lard: Adds fat that keeps the shortbread tender and short, with a crumbly texture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.