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Where can I buy LARD??

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  • 14-02-2019 7:50pm
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    Calibos
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    We eat a lot of fried food and hence consume a lot of sunflower vegetable oil and want to switch back to deep and shallow frying in animal fat like 'Ye Olden Days' when everything tasted better.

    Found Beef suet/tallow in Tesco and given that the legendary McDonalds fries from days of yore were cooked in this, we had high hopes. However neither the taste nor residue on the home cut chips we deep fried in it were to our liking. Asked my mother and she said that she and her mother always deep fried in Pork Lard, not Beef tallow.

    Hence my question. Why cant I find Lard anywhere?


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    Alun
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    Lard is pork fat, always has been. Have you tried a proper butchers like Hayes on Florence Road?


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    Speedsie
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    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Where are you based? Most proper butchers should have it.

    James Whelan butchers will post it out of you can't source it locally.


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    L1011
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    I would have trouble thinking of a normal butcher that *didn't* have it for sale. However traditional old-fashioned chips were more commonly cooked in beef fat than in lard so you may be disappointed.


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    Alun
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    I think chips were traditionally cooked in clarified beef dripping rather than rendered beef fat (suet)? That would certainly give it a different flavour.


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    odyssey06
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    Pretty sure Lidl have beef dripping in at the mo...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    Boardnashea
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    Dunnes have packs from James Whelan I think


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    twignme
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    Try your local Polish supermarket, I usually get mine there. It’s great for short crust pastry!


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    B0jangles
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    twignme wrote: »
    Try your local Polish supermarket, I usually get mine there. It’s great for short crust pastry!


    Came here to say the same thing! It's called smalec in Polish - just be sure to get the white block of rendered lard; there's another kind of smalec that's seasoned and has fried bits in it that's for spreading, not cooking.


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    vicwatson
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    Boardnashea wrote: »
    Dunnes have packs from James Whelan I think


    Dunnes own James Whelan Butchers


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    Whistlejacket
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    +1 for the blocks of smalec in the Eastern European section on the supermarket. My local Supervalu stocks it.


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    Larbre34
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    The White House.


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