Tool: Larding Needle
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Some meats benefit by being threaded through with seasoned fat, such as venison, bottom round of beef and less marbled cuts of meat.  It bastes the meat and contributes flavor and tenderness. Larding is done with strips (lardons or lardoons) of blanched salt pork, fresh salt pork, bacon.  Using the needle, you thread strips through the meat at whatever intervals you prefer. If you pay attention to how the meat will be sliced against the grain, you can have the strips showing in a pattern.  Info derived from The Cooks' Catalogue, 1975

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Other names: Lardoir, Barding Needle
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