Highland Center, in Southeast Iowa | Blusteryknollfarm - 12/21/2023 00:22 John, your comment about the Crisco in the pie crusts made me chuckle. I remember Grandma (born in 1910) using it in the 90's sometimes but she also used and preferred lard. One time she was loading pies into the car for the county fair and the cats got in when she was going back to the house for another load. They left the crusts with Crisco untouched and grandma talked about how "even the cats know that lard makes a better crust" after that incident.
Local county fair had a pie baking contest. One main rule was no lard....healthy, ya know. A friend's mother won the contest, hands down. Her daughter-in-law said something to the effect that she was a little surprised that "Mom" would make a crust without lard. "Mom" replies, "what do you mean...without lard?...Everybody knows you can't make a pie crust without lard". |
The actual reason why so many people are so fat?
