107 larding recipes

Traditional Mexican beans cooked in a pot (frijoles de olla) with just onion, lard, and salt. Slow-simmered from dried beans for 3 hours until tender and soupy. The foundation of Mexican cooking.

Rustic Irish turnip and bacon soup with potatoes simmered until soft and creamy. Simple 4-ingredient comfort food that tastes like the Irish countryside.

Old-fashioned beet and tomato casserole layered with grated cheese and toasted bread crumbs. Earthy beets meet tangy stewed tomatoes in a simple, bubbly bake.

Chopped turnips and potatoes simmered with fried bacon and onions in stock until soft and savory. A rustic British-style soup with just 6 ingredients that warms you to the bone on a cold day.

Old-fashioned drop cookies made with lard, brown sugar, and eggs. Just five ingredients, a big batch of 5 dozen, and that tender crumb only lard can give you.

Traditional British raised pork pie with a hand-molded hot water crust pastry filled with seasoned diced pork and finished with jellied stock. A proper bakery-style meat pie.

Schweines mit Bodabire und Aepfel is a rustic Swiss-German pork stew braised with potatoes, tart apples, and turnip in its own juices. Just eight simple ingredients.

Old-school lard pie crust with egg, vinegar, and a touch of brown sugar. One batch yields four disks for double-crust pies. The flakiest crust comes from cold lard worked into the size of tiny peas.

Special lard-based pastry dough for tourtieres (French-Canadian meat pies). A flaky, tender crust that rolls out easily and handles beautifully. Makes enough for multiple pies.

Classic cornbread muffins with yellow cornmeal, lard, and just enough sugar for a lightly sweet crumb. A simple, old-fashioned recipe with six pantry staples.

Yorkshire parkin made with fine oatmeal, golden syrup, lard, ginger, and mixed spice. A traditional sticky English gingerbread that improves after a few days wrapped in foil.

Spinach alla Romana with pine nuts, raisins, and lard in the traditional Roman style. A classic Italian side dish of wilted spinach with sweet-savory contrasts ready in 25 minutes.

In Hungary, this Swabian dish is known as 'Burgonyalangos'.

These meat-filled pastries are the perfect appetizer for that upcoming Thanksgiving dinner with family. Just don't expect any leftovers!

Polvorones: traditional Mexican pecan cookies made with butter and lard, spiced with cinnamon and anise seed. Sandy, crumbly, and sugar-coated.

Moggy is a traditional Manx and Lancashire sweet bread loaf made with flour, lard, and golden syrup. Crumbly, dense, and faintly molasses-like. Sliced and buttered thick the way the British Isles have done it for centuries.