What to make with LARD?

[chipmunksex]

Have had to buy a packet of lard in order to give ds a tiny morsel for food tech.

Now I have 225g of Lard and no idea what to make.

Inspiration please?

Lardy cake?

Roast potatoes. (or any roast veg).

Pastry.

Use it to line the bin.

You can use it for Yorkshire puddings and for refried beans (better combined with some bacon fat, which gives a bit of smokiness).

Any raised pie - pork pies are made with hot water crust pastry which is (from memory) melted lard and hot water mixed into the flour - suggest you find a recipe though...

Or you could melt it and stirr in some seeds, pour into a plant pot/similar and allow to cool. Then feed to the garden birds to fatten them up

Welsh cakes.

Definitely pastry... half butter, half lard and you'll never taste anything so crisp and melting.

Yorkshire puddings, use it to lubricate the pans

Oat Biscuits:
2oz each of Lard, Marg, caster sugar, flour, rolled oats
Whizz up the fats with the sugar, add the rest and mix well, make walnut sized balls of the dough and put on a baking tray (space out as they do spread) & cook at gas 4 for 15 mins. Allow to cool on the tray.
Not as sweet as many biscuits either

Thank you, I might try the welsh cakes, or just make a pie.

ditto pastry: makes it lovely and flaky

Modern sculpture?

I agree with the pastry suggestions.

make pastry with half butter and half lard. the deal with pastry is you need to coat each flour grain with fat to make it tender and you need to have layers of fat to make it flakey, so if you use room temperature butter it will coat the flour, and if you use room temperature lard it will form layers, as lard has a higher melting point than butter

A nice spare tyre