to lard
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6.9
- verb
- /lɑrd/
:
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- He decided to lard the meat with bacon to enhance its flavor.
Examples
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To keep the turkey moist during roasting, you should lard the bird with strips of fat.
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I hate the mouthfeel of mashed potatoes larded with fats...
Blog text (24) -
And so you add fat, sometimes lard or could be butter to it.
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Everything gets larded up and fried.
Blog text (12) -
Corn tortillas are even more convenient, and they keep Mexico alive, but here we deep-fry them and lard them up.
Blog text (12) -
In the morning, after Greither visited the toilet at the end of the hall and was given a breakfast of larded bread and bitter soup, which he handed to Deriba, two guards came for him.
Fiction book (1993) -
When making the pastry, remember to lard it to achieve a flaky texture.
Synonyms
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5.0
To pour fat or juices over meat while it cooks
To insert thin strips of fat into meat to add flavor and moisture
Make something richer by adding fat or extra things that are not needed
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Etymology
The verb lard comes from the same idea as the noun lard: cooks used to put strips of fat or bacon inside meat to keep it moist while it cooked. So to lard meat is to add fat to make it moist and more tasty.