General Chat

Interesting programme on radio 4 at the moment - Lard is good for you!! :-D

never!!!!!

.......when you swim the channel. :-)

I find it excellent for rubbing all over the body when in training for swimming across the chanel. Keeps the cold out beautifully.
:-D

I was half listening, Maggie and it made lard sound very inviting! :-D

Oh Island
you beat me to it.

I will look out for you at our next meet ok ;-) ;-)

Oh you'll know me Barb - I'm the lardie dah one LOL

sorry :-( runs>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


:-D :-D :-D

So Maggie What was it REALLY about?

as a Lard user I could be interested.....

Mind you in my VERY younger days Tallow was quite useful.......

Bob

Half lard, half marg. the proper fat ratio for making excellent pastry.

Julia in Derbyshire

We can chew the fat before our swim

As long as you dont rub me up the wrong way ##

>>>>>off to google 'boy scouts uses for tallow'

Grannie's secret recipe :-D.....tallow an excellent lubricant ;-) :-D

My grannies knitting was bad enough - we needed a rub down with lard to get into them and looked like a row of skinned rabbits :-0

A right 'Fishermans Friend' for BarbinGlos and Island when swimming the channel, then. LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

Basically saying, that it's a 'level' fat It has both saturated & unsaturated fats, and we actually need saturated fats!!
Recent research has shown it's no worse for us than olive oil.

Italians (you know - those whose diet is apparently much better than ours) create a drink of whisked lard.

I'm interested in it, (apart from the fact that chips cooked in lard are the best) because in the last 30 years, there has been a rise in the number of cases of ADHD in children - which co-incides with the government/health 'guru's telling us how bad Lard was, and the introduction of trans fats.

15 years ago, whilst at Uni, I looked into diet & ADHD. An English doctor gave ADHD children high doses of Fatty acids - and their behaviour changed. I've tried unsuccessfully to find the article online.
Unfortunately, looking at similar articles online, trans fats & saturated fats appear to be confused.

However, going back to lard, and related foodstuffs.
I now, for preference,drink unhomogenised milk, (which is basically fat suspended in water) because, unlike homogenised milk, it has large fat globules. These globules can't pass through the bloodstream and affect the cholesterol level - unlike the 'beaten' fat globules in homogenised milk.


And it tastes nicer :-D

Haven't had a fisherman or his friend for ages :-0 :-

I remember the " chip pan" lard bubbling away. I swear my OH used to look like a chip.

Nowadays he's lucky to have some once a month

Never buy it now but used to use the half and half for pastry

Brown dripping from the joint on toast..........

Why cant I get my dripping to taste like my mums.

On bread with a bit of salt hmm lovely. Mine goes straight in the bin

Mine goes out for the birds soaked into bread.

Interesting though Maggie, I sometimes wonder if by being so health concsious we have caused more problems than solved them. There must be a reason for so many children with ADHD, I know we had 'naughty' children when I was young but there were not the problems on the the scale that there is today. And I am not saying that ADHD children are naughty.