The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the hog's lard and white wax in an earthen vessel.
Stir the mixture until it cools.
Keep the dressing covered tightly.
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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