Shortening vs. Lard

Shorteningnoun

Solid fat, such as margarine, lard or butter, used to make shortcrust pastry

Lardnoun

Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

Shorteningnoun

- a reduction in length

Lardnoun

(obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

Shorteningnoun

The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

Lardverb

(cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.

Shorteningnoun

That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.

Lardverb

To smear with fat or lard.

Shorteningnoun

fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods

Lardverb

To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.

Shorteningnoun

act of decreasing in length;

‘the dress needs shortening’;

Lardverb

To fatten; to enrich.

Shortening

Shortening is any fat that is a solid at room temperature and used to make crumbly pastry and other food products. Although butter is solid at room temperature and is frequently used in making pastry, the term shortening seldom refers to butter, but is more closely related to margarine.

Lardverb

To grow fat.

Lardverb

To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

Lardnoun

Bacon; the flesh of swine.

Lardnoun

The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.

Lardverb

To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry.

‘And larded thighs on loaded altars laid.’;

Lardverb

To fatten; to enrich.

‘[The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.’; ‘Falstaff sweats to death.And lards the lean earth as he walks along.’;

Lardverb

To smear with lard or fat.

‘In his buff doublet larded o'er with fatOf slaughtered brutes.’;

Lardverb

To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

‘Let no alien Sedley interposeTo lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.’;

Lardverb

To grow fat.

Lardnoun

soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog

Lardverb

prepare or cook with lard;

‘lard meat’;

Lardverb

add details to

Lardnoun

fat from the abdomen of a pig that is rendered and clarified for use in cooking.

Lardnoun

excess fat in a person

‘I've got to give up fags and shift some lard’; ‘he's just a tub of lard’;

Lardverb

insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking

‘he larded the joint with garlic and anchovies’;

Lardverb

smear or cover (a foodstuff) with lard or fat to prevent it drying out during storage

‘farmhouse cheeses are dipped in wax or larded’;

Lardverb

embellish (talk or writing) with an excessive number of esoteric or technical expressions

‘his conversation is larded with quotations from Coleridge’;

Lardverb

cover or fill thickly or excessively

‘the pages were larded with corrections and crossings-out’;

Lard

Lard is a semi-solid white fat product obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of a pig. It is distinguished from tallow, a similar product derived from fat of cattle or sheep.