To Prepare Lard
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the fat or leaves into small pieces.
Place the pieces in a stone jar with a sprig of rosemary.
Set the jar into a kettle of hot water.
Once melted, strain the lard into pots or pour it into bladders.
Keep the lard from exposure to air.
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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