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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Lard
Message-ID: <96@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 17:33:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 17:33:01 1985
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About lard:

>	As a rule of thumb, if I can't buy the 
>	ingredient in the supermarket, I don't want it in my food.
>	When was the last time you baked lard, or FD&C yellow #5, or
>	cottonseed oil, into a batch of homemade cookies? Never!

A couple of points here:

   1.  You CAN buy lard in the supermarket.

   2.  Cottonseed oil is excellent oil, I believe.  Does anyone know
       the saturated/unsaturated fat ratio?  Cottonseed oil is also
       available in my supermarket.  It has been used in many countries
       since cotton has been grown.

   3.  Do not equate FD&C yellow #5 with either of the other two--they
       are natural products, and it is not.  (at least as far as I know.)

   4.  My grandmother swears by lard in pie crust, and she makes
       the best pie crust around.  She says 1/2 lard, 1/2 butter
       is the secret.  HER grandmother swore by ALL lard in her
       crust.  So don't think that using lard is something new
       dreamed up by chemists.

>	I recently read the ingredients on a container of prepared 
>	chocolate frosting, you know, the one that advertises on national
>	TV as "made with real butter."  Well, ANIMAL FAT comes in ahead
>	of butter on the ingredient list, way ahead.  Disgusting!

If you think about it, butter IS animal fat.--it just comes out in a
different way.

I will agree that lard is less healthy than a vegetable oil.  But it
does have its uses.  I would`t buy it unless I'm making a pie--in which
case health is probably not my major concern.  I'm not much of a pie baker 
anyway.


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