There’s a Southern influence that lately has wended its way through Los Angeles restaurants, and its emblem is the biscuit. Tender, flaky, golden biscuits have risen on menus from Manhattan Beach to ...

There's more than one way to make biscuits, and "beaten" biscuits especially have been around for well over a hundred years.

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Lard is pig fat and its use in cooking dates back hundreds and hundreds of years. When rendered with care, lard contains 54 percent less saturated fat than an equal amount of butter by weight. In ...

1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. 2. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Using a pastry cutter or fork, cut in the lard until it is reduced to pea-sized pieces.