I was thinking about this the other day whilst prepping a toad in the hole.

My fridge contains a block of the white stuff for doing Yorkshires, Roast tatties, T.I.T.H and theraputic Sunday morning fry-ups. However I also keep stock of olive oil and vegetable oil for other dishes requiring slightly more finnesse.

In todays health concious climate am I alone in using a bloody great block of rendered fat to make my tatties taste glorious?

I don not use lard. I use oil and for roast potatoes I also sprinkle some flavouring stuff you can buy especially for putting on roast potatoes by schwartz, it's lovely and sold in packets in different flavours like sage and onion and southern fried. :thumbsup:

I've NEVER use Lard :o
my dad had a heart attack when I was 12 ( he was only 43) so ever since then we have all had a very low fat diet, lard was one of the things that ws definately ruled out...forever.. tho I dont really think mum used it much anyway! When it got to cookery lessons at school I was constantly told off for not bringing lard like I was told to, when I explained why they still told me I should bring lard (I never did :D) and I thought they were trying to teach us to eat healthily!!!!! :suspect:

Originally posted by dawny1
I don not use lard. I use oil and for roast potatoes I also sprinkle some flavouring stuff you can buy especially for putting on roast potatoes by schwartz, it's lovely and sold in packets in different flavours like sage and onion and southern fried. :thumbsup:

I don't use lard, i pretty much just use olive oil for cooking. And if i want stuff to taste of sage and onion, i use things like sage and onion, not sage and onion flavoured powder. Fresh ingredients all the way for me. Currently got some pork loin marinating in cider with sprigs of rosemary. :thumbsup:

-PK-

My gran uses lard. She has had four heart attacks. But she still climbs up mountains in the lake district at 88.

Funny thing this is. My granny's generation and to a point my mum's were brought up on a very fatty diet with lard playing a large role. My ancestors and most of their peers that I can remember lived to be a ripe old age. BUT they worked a very hard life with lots of manual work within the home especially.

So lard, dripping and other animal fats on their own can't be held responsible for all the heart attacks, but their consumption linked with the sedentary lifestyles of today probably are.

A little of what you fancy does you good but keep up the exercise ;)

I used to use lard for frying before I went healthy - wouldn't dream of it now! And beef dripping too... :gag:

i bought some the other day in a weak moment of domestic goddess-ness when I intended to make a freshly baked, home made pie for my children...it's still there, in the fridge unopened...:rolleyes:

Well at least the intention was there!

I dont think you can make pastry without lard and marg in equal quantity. I also love real chips cooked in lard too. MMMMMmmmmmm chipppppppps :love:

Originally posted by tim_rutter
My gran uses lard. She has had four heart attacks. But she still climbs up mountains in the lake district at 88.

It's probably the climbing that bring on heart attacks, not Lard.

Captain Webb coated himself in lard 3 feet thick to swim along the Channell Tunnell, and look how healthy he was.

Mind you he's dead now.

Originally posted by viking
It's probably the climbing that bring on heart attacks, not Lard.

Hold on a mo! I have been climbing lake district mountains all my life. I eat NO lard. I have had NO heart attacks. Therefore, lard is the cause of heart attacks.

Originally posted by msbehavin

I dont think you can make pastry without lard and marg in equal quantity.

You don't need lard for pastry, you can get white vegetable fat. However adding gratuitous amounts of animal fat to anything makes it taste v nice. Lets hear those arteries scream!

Originally posted by tim_rutter
Hold on a mo! I have been climbing lake district mountains all my life. I eat NO lard. I have had NO heart attacks. Therefore, lard is the cause of heart attacks.




And there was me assuming he was joking...

Or, are you?

Oh it's all too much...:help:

I stopped using lard when we became aware of cholesterol and have never really missed it but Pork Dripping with jelly on toast, now that is something that I crave every time I see it in the shops

Originally posted by Mo
Funny thing this is. My granny's generation and to a point my mum's were brought up on a very fatty diet with lard playing a large role. My ancestors and most of their peers that I can remember lived to be a ripe old age. BUT they worked a very hard life with lots of manual work within the home especially.

So lard, dripping and other animal fats on their own can't be held responsible for all the heart attacks, but their consumption linked with the sedentary lifestyles of today probably are.

A little of what you fancy does you good but keep up the exercise ;)

I agree, the diet and daily life has changed from the past and it does make a difference to health.

In my dads case however, there was a history of heart disease in the family and also he carries the gene that sadly makes him produce too much cholesterol and not be able to exercise it off as normal. Consequently when he had the first of his 3 heart attacks and when this was discovered he (and therefore the rest of the family) had to change his diet so that there was NO fat in it that could be avoided. I believe that its because of this that I still have a dad 15 years later.

Originally posted by msbehavin
And there was me assuming he was joking...

Or, are you?

Oh it's all too much...:help:

As the overall winner of the National Sarcasm League, I think you can guess my level of seriousness. :D

Originally posted by tim_rutter
As the overall winner of the National Sarcasm League, I think you can guess my level of seriousness. :D

Who gave you that title?
Sarcasm takes days of practise. :hihi:

I lke smearing lard on my man-breasts whilst Mistress punishes me... but I suppose that's the same for everybody.

No. The very texture of lard makes my shudder. But Chips fried in it, or better still chips fried in beef dripping, is the best.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
No. The very texture of lard makes my shudder. But Chips fried in it, or better still chips fried in beef dripping, is the best.

The thrill is in the shudder.

I do buy lard to make Blue Peter style bird cakes with using breadcrumbs, seeds, bacon rind & cheese etc.


Have never tried it but they seem to like it. :D

Haven't knowingly eaten lard since I left parents home.

Usually cook with olive oil or, more recently rapeseed oil as it's higher in omega 3's n the like.

Originally posted by viking
Who gave you that title?
Sarcasm takes days of practise. :hihi:

A man gave it to me. I'm not sure if he was being serious or not tho.

I would honestly rather eat poo than lard. I cannot believe people still use it in this day and age. That said, it is the object of one of my many phobias, as mentioned here (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&postid=331057)

Realy ! you mean lard is better than oil for chips ? haven't used it in years but i'm sure my mom used it all the time.

We were raised on greasy foods, never did us any harm, had fried egg and chips nearly every other night, bread and drippin on a Sunday night, slapped that butter on anything that didn't move.

Have to go, feeling a tightness in my right arm !!!!!!!

like all fatty foods lard is fine to use if you only use it occassionally. I like to do roast potatoes ( though goose fat is better) and yorkshire puds in lard.

I only have them about once every three months so the amount of lard I eat will have little effect on my health. I'm sure people must be eating pre-packed foods that use lard as an ingredient more than they actually notice.


Apparently the omega 3's found is some of the 'healthier' oils such as rapeseed are not much use to us as it is the long chain omega three molecules that are more bennifical. (read it the times today but not looked into it yet so don't quote me on it!)

Obviously people do use it, otherwise there wouldn't have been a national crisis (http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1351990,00.html) when supplies ran low (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4012597.stm) last year.

They like Lard in Ukraine (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3713028.stm).

The British Lard Marketing Board (http://www.zen8595.zen.co.uk/lard/lardhome.html) will have more information, as will the Science Museum (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/80249.stm).

:suspect:

Originally posted by Andy
Obviously people do use it, otherwise there wouldn't have been a national crisis (http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1351990,00.html) when supplies ran low (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4012597.stm) last year.

They like Lard in Ukraine (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3713028.stm).

The British Lard Marketing Board (http://www.zen8595.zen.co.uk/lard/lardhome.html) will have more information, as will the Science Museum (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/80249.stm).

:suspect:

Okay, Okay, I know I shouldn't be one to judge, but that Ukraine thing is just about the most appalling thing I've EVER seen. It's put me right off my Gin and Tonic.... :gag:

Originally posted by Kristian

... that Ukraine thing is just about the most appalling thing I've EVER seen. ...

I guess you didn't see this then?

Chocolard: Melt a block of lard in a pan. Stir in two dessert spoons full of cocoa and two tablespoons of sugar (white, refined). Pour into a mould. When nearly set, add a fancy pattern and when set wrap in tinfoil.


This is even worse (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3825221.stm)

:help:

Originally posted by Andy
I guess you didn't see this then?



This is even worse (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3825221.stm)

:help:

<--- Decides to retire from this thread, certainly until morning anyhoo! How could anyone sully the true fabulousness of chocolate by adding the unmentionable stuff? Sacrilege! It's like adding meths to fine wine, a spoiler to a Fiat Uno, or a plot to 'Murder, She Wrote; pointless and unwanted!