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Lard was first used in pizza by Romans and is far superior than olive oil for baking in every way but one. It nearly never burns and is sweeter (as it is pork fat) and will maker a crisper crust(sorry that's just chemistry it's burning point is higher). But it is a heart attack waiting to happen so most NY pizza no longer uses it. And you can use it in any soda based recipe instead of olive oil not just yeast. So no pork lard can be used in any pizza Recipe as it is the Original ingredient NOT OLIVE OIL but it is as unhealth as it is great tasting. So you can use it in a soda recipe or a yeast. So sorry it is better tasting and was the original ingredient but is no longer used in most NY Pizza. My mom used to make a soda based crust with over a cup of lard in it and it was Heaven and would get you there to.

Here a old time Authentic pizza recipy as the romans used thow it is yeast based you could substitute 2 tsp. baking powder for the yeast .

http://www.bigoven.com/40005-Black-Pepper-Lard-Pizza-Dough-recipe.html

and here one for original NY pizza

http://www.fogazzo.com/html/pizza_dough.html
read on that page
Fogazzo’s Basic Italian Pizza Dough Recipe

I haven't had one in decades but just to keep this sandwich going, I will go there and have them.

They're tastey but they're like 700 calories each!!!!!!

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I was a vegetarian between the ages of 13 and 22. One night (about 2 months ago) I decided that I simply wanted a steak. Right there and then I went to a diner with my best friend and she watched me down a steak. It was incredible. Not only was that night amazing, but since then I have SO much more energy than I did before. For nine years I had issues with energy. It hit a climax last year when I literally could not stay awake at 2pm every day for months. That went away after I started to take insulin pills (I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes at that ime), but I was still kind of low on energy, moody, depressive...

I swear eating meat has been my savior! I feel like a new woman! I literally feel like a completely different person. I have energy now! And I'm not as moody or depressive... wow, things are different! Plus I feel more like "me"... I never saw myself as the girl who'd eat a salad at a steakhouse while her date had a rare one. I saw myself as the down-to-earth-red-meat-eating chick even when I didn't eat meat for 9 years.

I love steak! I can't ever be a vegetarian again!

I second dmcavanagh's comments. This is an eye opening treatise on pizza for anyone that wants to learn the craft. Varasano’s Pizza Recipe.

Basics include proper technique when mixing/kneeding the dough, aging, use of natural/sourdough yeast for crust flavor, etc....

i have known one place here in maine that uses lard. it tastes very crispy (kinda cracker like). they also use meatball sauce as pizza sauce.

I just tried this for the first time but I made it with chicken broth, minced onions, black beans and topped with sour cream....mmmm mmmm good

Aw man, elementary school, now that's going back. We had tatertots with smilies cut into them. I also remember a hot turkey sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy, all on texas toast. I remember asking the lunch lady for another slice of bread so I could have a real sandwich. Mmm, that was where I learned to make mashed potato and gravy sandwiches!

Every single day I ate 6 sugar cookies & a strawberry shortcake ice cream on a stick --- Oh so delicious but oh so terrible for me! Like I cared back then!

Pizza (square or Italian bread "surfboard" options) on Wednesdays. The tater tots were neon, the jell-o stuck to everything (kids would often put a piece on skin and let it sit there until it fell off who knows how long later), and there were always canned peaches or "fruit cup." The burgers were grey and tasted like... grey. I always liked hoagie days (few and far between) because I could load of on fresh veggies from the toppings table, and I developed a fondness for canned green beans and peas that lasts to this day.

Thursdays were pizza day in middle school - and I'd take $2.00 instead of $1.00 so that i coudl get TWO pizzas. To me, that was the best pizza in the world and Thursdays were the ray of sunshine in my teen-angst-ridden week.

Other delicacies I remember actually enjoying in middle school included the beefaroni, the triangluar shaped "popsicle" in a squeeze packet, and the carrot cake.

In high school I went to a small private school where lunch was prepared by two old ladies in their homes, and then they came and sold it to us. Being that most of our student body was Cuban, we often had cuban sandwiches, "pan con croquetas" and "media noche" sandwiches. We also had guava or meat empanadas, and really bad pizza.

I walked home for lunch every day until I was in the 5th grade--I was terrified of being forced to eat beans or tuna (food I still detest). But I discovered it was wonderful food there--nothing was pre-made. Everything from scratch, this was in the 70's. My favorite was turkey dinner-- real turkey, real mashed potatoes, etc. They had peanut butter bars for dessert sometimes that were to die for-- and I've tried zillions of recipes trying to find its duplicate. No luck. Chewy peanut butter bars with thick milk chocolate frosting.
Junior high and high school food was a different matter, though. They managed to even make french fries taste industrial.