If you watched Celebrity Apprentice you saw them use it while making the cupcakes
It comes in a one pound brick in red wrapper.
There is no finer.
I used it when I made homemade cherry pie.

cold butter. hands down.

I prefer to use butter, but of those two I would use lard, and say look out waist line LoL.

Twilight, they are pretty much on par with each other, I would go for the classic.

Chris

Momma always said make sure it’s damned cold butter so it flakes up nicely. Means you have to work fast with the dough and have the filling and oven ready.

Veg shortening would be ok, but I definitely wouldn’t use lard. But rather than use either of those, use butter. If you freeze butter before using it and try not to over mix it into the crust (leaving little bits of cold butter that are not fully mixed in), you end up with a very light flaky pie crust. It definitely has more flavor than using shortening, and is healthier too!

I like a combination of butter and shortening. 3/4 to 1/4. Gives nice butter flavor with the flakyness that usually comes from shortening.

I must admit that I have never made a lard crust and plan on trying it just to compare.

The 5 things that make everything from pasta to hard disks more scrum-delicioso:
lard,
cocoa powder,
mint,
cinnamon,
sugar,
cyanne pepper

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