My Mother also cooked with lard. She also would put a teaspoon full of meat grease on her biscuits. She really knew how to cook.
I guess in the 60s she began to read that vegetable oils were more healthy and changed over to peanut oil, Crisco or Wesson oil. I don’t guess the lard hurt too much as she lived to 86 and Daddy to 90.
A friend and I were talking about our moms’ cooking. I told her I did a lot of the cooking as a kid but I can never make food today as good as what we had back then. She said she felt the same way. Was it just our tastes or something else? It is no fun being part of the older generation.
Just remembered something. Someone in my family would add sugar to bacon grease and eat that. My mom cooked liver and onions but I never liked that. Or brain and eggs. Yuck!