Many years ago almost all British chippies cooked the fish and chips in beef dripping. Some places in the north of England still do. The taste is out of this world!
Check out this cookbook Aaron.
Fat by Jennifer McLagan
We initially borrowed it from the library then purchased.
Chapter 2, pork fat: THE KING
Her other books Bones, & Bitter are equally enjoyable.
https://www.amazon.com/Fat-Appreciation-Misunderstood-Ingredient-Recipes/dp/1580089356
My wife has always used lard or butter for the pies she bakes. Tenderflake Lard has always been available up here during my lifetime as far as i know.
dave
Lard is not acceptable to the PC food police.
Used this stuff before. To me the only drawback was that it lacked the smokey flavor of bacon drippings.Picked this up at lunch over at Whole Foods for $6.99. Last one on the shelf
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It wouldn't surprise if me if they also had salt pork in them (or if the person just wanted to say "lard" instead of "salt pork" because they didn't want to explain salt pork (or they wanted to keep their secret)).
Aaron are you saying that you can't get it at HEB??? There should be at least 745 tienda's in the greater Austin area.
HEB carries only one that I've seen...mason jar size. Fiesta may carry two.... I'll check it out and report back.