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Lard vs Shortening - What's the difference?

lard | shortening |

In context|cooking|lang=en terms the difference between lard and shortening

is that lard is (cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking while shortening is (cooking) solid fat, such as butter, lard or hydrogenated vegetable oil, used to make shortcrust pastry.

As nouns the difference between lard and shortening

is that lard is fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy while shortening is (cooking) solid fat, such as butter, lard or hydrogenated vegetable oil, used to make shortcrust pastry.

As verbs the difference between lard and shortening

is that lard is (cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking while shortening is (shorten).

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.

    shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Solid fat, such as butter, lard or hydrogenated vegetable oil, used to make shortcrust pastry.
  • Verb

    (head)