18 lardy cake recipes

Cow chip biscuits: classic chuckwagon-style flat lard biscuits with flour, milk, baking powder, and salt. Six-ingredient pantry biscuits with crisp edges and tender centers.

I have made lots of yeast based naan bread, and finally gave these fry bread a go. It was like a quick version of naan bread, but still had great flavour and texture. I guess when I am in a hurry, this recipe will be my option.

Old-fashioned sour milk doughnuts with buttermilk, nutmeg, and ginger, fried in lard until golden. Cake-style heritage doughnuts rolled in sugar.

Authentic gorditas made with masa harina, lard, and a touch of flour. Pressed thin, griddle-seared, then fried until puffed and crispy. Ready to split and fill with your favorite toppings.

Homemade flour tortillas with lard, warm milk, and baking powder. Five ingredients, no yeast, and the lard makes them pliable and flavorful in a way shortening can't match.

Traditional flour tortillas made with lard and warm milk for a soft, pliable wrap with that authentic Mexican-style chew. Five ingredients and a hot griddle, that's all it takes.

Old-school Southern buttermilk biscuits made with pure lard for flaky layers and tender crumb. Just five ingredients and minimal kneading for biscuits like grandma used to make.

Shortcut tamale casserole with masa harina dough layered over chili and baked until golden. All the corn-and-chili flavor of real tamales without rolling a single corn husk.

Old-fashioned whole bran muffins with just 8 ingredients. Milk-soaked bran keeps them moist and tender while a hot oven bakes them golden in 20 minutes. Simple and fiber-rich.

Pennsylvania Dutch shoofly cake with molasses filling and brown sugar crumb topping baked in a pie crust. Old Lehigh County recipe ready in 50 minutes.

Light, fluffy cornmeal dumplings that cook right on top of your soup, stew, or stock in just 15 minutes. Small-batch recipe for one serving, easily doubled. Includes a cheese variation.

Mrs. Criswell's ginger cookies are old-fashioned molasses and ground ginger rolled cookies glazed with beaten egg and baked in a hot oven. A rustic heirloom farmhouse recipe.

A big-batch Dutch oven peach cobbler built for a crowd. Canned peaches simmer in a sweet cornstarch glaze under a lattice of homemade biscuit dough strips. Campfire-ready and feeds up to 18 hungry folks.

Singing hinny is a traditional Northumbrian griddle cake with flour, lard and currants, cooked in a hot pan until it sings and sizzles. Split, buttered and served warm with tea.

Ground pork peanut butter cookies made with lard, browned pork, cinnamon, and orange zest. A savory-sweet heritage cookie recipe unlike anything in your cookie jar.

Soft chocolate drop cookies with cream cheese baked right into the dough and crunchy walnuts in every bite. The cream cheese keeps them tender and slightly tangy for days.