94 lard recipes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Liver dumplings (leberknödel) blend scraped beef liver with lard, breadcrumbs, egg, and parsley, then poach in clear broth. Single-serving Austrian-German soup garnish.

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

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.

Brennsuppe is a rustic Austrian flour soup made from a dark lard roux, onions, caraway seeds, and herbs. A humble peasant dish with deep, toasty flavor that warms you from the inside out.

A traditional Welsh double-crust rhubarb tart with spiced lard pastry scented with cinnamon and mixed spice. Dead simple, properly old-fashioned, and adaptable to any seasonal fruit.

Mom's easy canned corned beef hash simmered with diced potatoes, onion, and milk, served alongside cooked cabbage. A nostalgic weeknight dinner that's ready in 40 minutes.

Lou Pastis en Pott, the classic Languedoc potted meat: beef and pork slow-cooked in red wine with juniper, sealed under lard, and built up over weeks. Traditional French preservation cooking.

Porter beef braises chunks of rib eye in Guinness stout with onions, mushrooms, and a pinch of nutmeg. A rich Irish-style stout-braised beef stew that cooks in two hours.

Lentejas en adobo is a rustic Mexican lentil and pork stew simmered in a smoky ancho-chili adobo with plantain, pineapple, and warm spices. Thick, savory, and deeply layered.

Pot roast of buffalo: a lean bison rump roast larded with pork, marinated for days, then braised tender in a rich stock-and-tomato gravy. Classic wild game cookery.

Pork stew with green chilies, jalapeno, and oregano slow-simmered until fork-tender. A New Mexican-style chile verde served rolled in warm flour tortillas.