leaf lard

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Etymology

The standard of identity is from the Code of Federal Regulations, title 9, section 317.8(b)(18) and 319.702.

Noun

leaf lard (uncountable)

  1. The internal fat of a pig, separated in leaves or masses from the kidneys, etc.
    • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle:
      Worst of any who served in the cooking rooms. These people could not be shown to the visitor,—for men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam[,] their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,—sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard!
  2. (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (US standards of identity) White lard made from fresh, clean, sound leaf (abdominal) fat of swine, reasonably free of blood, free of foreign odors and tastes, and having not more than set maxima of potassium hydroxide, peroxide, moisture, volatile matter, and insoluble impurities.

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