Cooking fats and oils · Ingredients

Lard

猪油

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Pork-derived fat used to make crisp pastry layers.

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How to recognize it

Rendered pork fat, usually creamy white when cool and liquid when heated; not a plant-based fat.

Creates crisp layers in qizi shaobing.

Pork-derived shortening; not a plant oil.