Lard: The Lost Art of Cooking with Your Grandmother's Secret Ingredient

Lard: The Lost Art of Cooking with Your Grandmother's Secret Ingredient is a cookbook of more than 100 recipes celebrating the versatility of lard and other healthful animal fats.

Once again embraced by chefs and dietitians, lard contains 54 percent less saturated fat than butter and some plant-derived fats, and this collection shows how to cook with it like your grandmother did.

At a glance

• Format: Cookbook
• Publisher: Mother Earth News
• Source: Grit magazine archives
• Recipes: More than 100
• Topics: Cooking with lard, heritage and old-fashioned recipes

Best for

• Home cooks who love traditional recipes
• Bakers and Southern-cooking fans
• Readers curious about cooking with animal fats
• Heritage and farmhouse food enthusiasts
• A gift for a home cook

What's inside

More than 100 recipes handpicked from over 100 years of Grit magazine, including Grandma's Homemade Biscuits, Southern Fried Chicken, Fried Okra, and Apple Dumplings, showing off lard's flavor and versatility.

About Mother Earth News

Mother Earth News is a long-running publisher covering homesteading, organic gardening, and sustainable living, offering practical self-reliance guidance for modern readers.