- Large fat crystals make flakier pastry (cite earlier pie crust recipe, give a biscuit recipe)
- Doesn't smoke at high temp
- 20% less saturated fat than butter
- Don't use hydrogenated lard (give list of brands)
- hydrogenation/trans fats
- 1.75 cups makes crusts for 2 pies. Cut each pie into 8 slices, and there is 5.25 tsp lard in each slice. Cut the pie into 6 slices, and there is 7.2 tsp of lard in each slice.
Shortening
- hydrogenated
- vegetable, "creamed" (animal tallow)
Butter
Other fats?
