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Lard vs Lefse - What's the difference?

lard | lefse |

As a proper noun lard

is .

As a noun lefse is

a traditional soft norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and milk or cream (or sometimes lard) and cooked on a griddle.

lard

English

(wikipedia lard)

Noun

(-)
  • Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
  • (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking
  • to smear with fat or lard
  • * Somerville
  • In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.
  • to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing
  • To fatten; to enrich.
  • * Spenser
  • [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
  • (obsolete) To grow fat.
  • To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • * Dryden
  • Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

    lefse

    English

    (wikipedia lefse)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A traditional soft Norwegian flatbread made from potato, flour, and milk or cream (or sometimes lard) and cooked on a griddle.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 20, author=Monica Davey, title=For Children of Norway, a Rift With the Mother Country, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=We treasure the heritage more here than they do in Norway itself, said Audrey Amundson of Starbuck, Minn., which sealed its place in history in 1983 by cooking what residents insist was the world's biggest lefse , a Norwegian flatbread made of potatoes, cream and flour. }}