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To Sweeten Lard

A medicinal lard infused with slippery elm bark.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Sweeten Lard

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Tie a small bunch of slippery elm bark.

  2. Melt the lard in a pot.

  3. Add the slippery elm bark to the melted lard.

  4. Boil for an hour or more.

  5. Remove the bark from the lard.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Lard
Forms the fat base that carries the flavor and texture of the infusion.
Slippery elm bark
Releases aromatic and mucilage compounds into the fat during long simmering.

“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.

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