Last night I made double batches of pie pastry...my usual Cook's
Illustrated recipe and also an all lard recipe from the lard package.

I made extra, too, because the kids like Pie Crust Cookies (pastry
sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar) for breakfast on Thanksgiving.

Though the lard crust is incredibly flaky, the CI one edges it out in
familial statistically unreliable taste tests. This may have been due
to the fact that the CI recipe calls for a bit of sugar & so the pasty
was sweeter. Four to one for the CI....one of the kids has a cold &
said he couldn't taste any difference at all.

Believe me, nothing was "wrong" with the lard crust at all...it is
great, but the CI recipe retains its title in this household.

Boron