Should You Use Lard Instead of Butter When Making a Pie Crust? Does it make the flakiest, most flavorful pastry? It depends who you ask. Ask a random sampling of pastry chefs, bakers, and home cooks ...

Q. Where can I find leaf lard for pie crusts? I have no trouble finding supermarket lard, but it always seems to be full of preservatives. Lard has an undeservedly awful reputation in our ...

A truly dramatic shift in Americans’ eating behavior is playing out in the area of fat consumption. Animal fats, demonized for decades as prime contributors to obesity and heart disease, are being ...

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and Vanilla Sugar. Using two forks or a pastry blender, cut in the butter and lard, making sure to leave some chunks of butter the size of peas.

When making homemade tortillas, a great deal of the texture and taste hinges on the kind of fat you choose. These are the best fat options for the next time you make homemade tortillas.

It”s an age-old battle: lard versus butter. Every family boasts a recipe to make the perfect pie crust. For the most part, you”ve got the same ingredients: flour, pinch of salt, sprinkle of sugar and ...

With butter consumption at a 40-year high, it seems that home cooks are ready to embrace animal fats once more — and yet lard remains almost universally reviled. I can promise you, though, that it ...

Most of us long for the authenticity of old-fashioned recipes, in which farm-fresh ingredients contribute honest flavors. Free-range eggs, with their sunny, orange yolks; freshly churned butter ...

Ok, let's try to figure out where your pie went wrong. So you didn't make enough dough and, as you (hilariously) said, it sat on the pie filling like a yarmulke. But I think the real problem was ...

You can't beat hot-from-the oven, crispy-on-the-outside, tender-on-the-inside, buttermilk biscuits. I like mine slathered with sweet butter and molasses, or stuffed with salty country ham. I am not ...

We teamed up with nutritionist McKel Hill, MS, RD, LDN from Nutrition Stripped to give us some friendly feedback on how we’re doing in the snack department. Are they good for us? Could they be better?