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Lenona Lenona is offline
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Default Frying question: Lard? Oil? Margarine?

On Jan 24, 12:40*am, Helpful person > wrote:

> Interesting, especially as margarine wasn't available until about 1870.


Yes, Terry Deary did mention that they didn't have it in the Georgian
era. He was simply saying that it was OK to use that instead of lard.

There are recipes in the other books as well - including the two books
on ancient Romans.

More info, if you like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horribl...book_series%29


Lenona.