Barb W. reviewed Lard: The Lost Art of Cooking with Your Grandmother's Secret Ingredient on + 5 more book reviews
For years my attempts to make pie crusts 'like mom used to make' were disappointing failures...until I rediscovered the virtues of lard. I remember the fall venture by several farm neighbors, each taking a turn to help butchering a hog, then rendering the fat in a large cast iron pot out back of the house. Mom got a large can of lard to use all year and the rest of us enjoyed the cracklins at the end of the day. This book gives several anecdotes and suggestions for rendering lard in our day and time. Organic sources for lard are offered by many sites online. Now we enjoy the benefits of the "good ol' days," just as mom and grandma did.
