In article >,
"Jean B." > wrote:


> I need to find some of the most-interesting things to make. It
> only occurred to me tonight that I could have made a lard pie
> crust for my Easter pie.

Some people are really down on lard, but I'm not sure it's that bad. I
posted this earlier:

http://www.nutristrategy.com/fatsoils.htm

In comparing lard with vegetable shortening, I just can't see much of a
difference. Unless you eat an awful lot of pie, I don't think it will
have an appreciable impact on your total fat. Two cautions: the site
doesn't show any numbers for trans fat, and it doesn't specify whether
the lard is hydrogenated or not. On the other hand, US labeling laws
require that saturated fat and trans fat be shown on the label, so you
should be able to compare at the store, if you buy your lard at the
store.

On the other hand, butter fat does have quite different numbers than
lard/shortening. Just from the site, I would say that lard is healthier
than butter.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

"[Don't] assume that someone is "broken" just because they behave in ways
you don't like or don't understand." --Miche