Pie Day [General]
2011 Sep 21
I love rendering my own leaf lard to use in pies.
Zymurgist, do you use a combination of butter/ lard in your crust. If not you should try it, it will produce a nice buttery flavour but flaky crust.. Heaven.
I have a jar of leaf lard I rendered a few weeks ago, that I'm waiting to make apple pie. Most likely for birthday coming up in the next couple weeks.
I have a lot of kitchen cooking projects on the list of the next couple of weeks
Zymurgist, do you use a combination of butter/ lard in your crust. If not you should try it, it will produce a nice buttery flavour but flaky crust.. Heaven.
I have a jar of leaf lard I rendered a few weeks ago, that I'm waiting to make apple pie. Most likely for birthday coming up in the next couple weeks.
I have a lot of kitchen cooking projects on the list of the next couple of weeks
2011 Sep 21
today's globe & mail has an article on reviving taste and use of animal's 'odd bits' (wording from article). they recommend using leaf lard for pies and suggest using 40% butter for the flavour:
www.theglobeandmail.com
www.theglobeandmail.com
2011 Sep 21
Jeebus is it the writer or the editor responsible for this atrocity from that article : "Jennifer McLagan has been on a crusade to change people’s minds, palates and pantries when it comes to eating animals for years."
Is that the state of professional journalism these days? Or are they giving out journalism degrees in boxes of Cracker Jacks? Yeeesh.
Is that the state of professional journalism these days? Or are they giving out journalism degrees in boxes of Cracker Jacks? Yeeesh.
2011 Sep 23
Although this seems to be accepted in Canada, Zym's correction is missing the oxford comma. That was a punishable offence in my grade school formal grammar classes (private, in the US). I know there are many references which support the lack of this comma, however, this one halted the debate for me.
Hopefully the link works. If not, google "oxford comma jfk".
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Admittedly many of my posts are grammatically hypocritical. Please don't judge me :)
Hopefully the link works. If not, google "oxford comma jfk".
pastthestorm.tumblr.com
Admittedly many of my posts are grammatically hypocritical. Please don't judge me :)
zymurgist
I guess I did not report a few months ago when I dragged a bunch of leaf lard home from work and rendered it down to make my own lard. I pressured canned it and have it stored in the basement. Been mainly using it for frying but finally got around to making pie crust out of it.
First thing I gotta say is that home made lard is worlds more flavorful than the bland stuff you buy in the store. Not even a comparison really. It is incredible.
And it makes really good pie crust. I started out and made an apple pie which was so good it prompted me to make a meat pie.
So, pie for supper, and pie for dessert. Oh, and both were made with filling i canned up quite some time ago. And meat pie needs to be served with home made mustard pickles, of course
Yum!