▪ I. larding, vbl. n.
(ˈlɑːdɪŋ)
[f. lard v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb lard; the preparation of meat for cooking by inserting pieces of fat bacon. † Rarely concr. Fat, grease, unguent.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 288/1 Laardynge, lardacio. 1583 Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 79 Soom feloes naked with larding smearye bebasted. c 1645 Howell Lett. (1650) I. v. xxxviii. 174 He is also good at Larding of meat after the mode of France. 1736 Bailey Housh. Dict. 376 Larding is done with slips of bacon which must be cut small and of a convenient length according to the meat or fowl that you would lard. 1884 Girls' Own Paper June 491/1 Larding is one of the advanced operations in cookery. |
b. fig. (See
lard v.)
| 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. To Rdr., The Larding of Latine with High Dutch. 1687 Settle Refl. Dryden 22 I'le..with Larding of part Quibble, and part Sophistry imitate his way of arguing. |
c. attrib. and
Comb.,
larding-bacon, bacon used in the culinary operation of larding;
† larding money (see
quot.);
larding-needle,
-pin,
† -prick,
† -stick, pointed instruments with which the meat is pierced and the bacon inserted in the process of larding meat.
| 1884 Girls' Own Paper June 491/1 *Larding bacon is sold by many dealers. |
| 1670 Blount Law Dict. (1691), *Larding-money, in the Manour of Bradford in Com. Wilts. the Tenants pay to the Marquis of Winchestor, their Land⁓lord, a small yearly Rent by this Name. |
| 1675 S. Fell Let. 4 Mar. in Househ. Acct. Bk. 1673–78 (1920) p. xvii, Two *larding needles. 1855 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (rev. ed.) ix. 181 Secure one end of the bacon in a slight larding-needle. 1870 Warne's Every-day Cookery 23 Larding needle, made with split ends, like a cleft stick, to receive strips of fat bacon. 1958 House & Garden Feb. 85/1 A larding needle... With this,..you can thread strips of bacon fat through the breast of a chicken. 1970 Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 239/1 Larding needle, a long steel needle with a large eye into which narrow strips of pork fat or larding bacon are threaded. |
| 1598 Florio, Lardaruola, a lardrie, a larder, a *larding pinne. 1693 Lond. Gaz. No. 2853/4, 1 Orange Strainer, 1 Larding Pin. 1697 tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 201 Don Augustin intreated me also, to let him have some of my Larding-Pins. 1796 H. Glasse Cookery v. 60 Put the bacon through and through the beef with the larding-pin. 1845 [see lardon]. |
| 1611 Cotgr., Larder,..to pricke, or pierce, as with a *larding pricke. |
| 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vne Lardoire, a *larding sticke. 1611 Cotgr., Lardoire, a larding sticke, or pricke. 1694 Motteux Rabelais iv. xxix. (1737) 120 He's the most industrious Larding-stick and Skewer-maker. |
▪ II. ˈlarding, ppl. a. [f. lard v. + -ing2.] Fattening (in
trans. and
intr. senses).
| 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. xiv. 108 Th' unweldy larding swine his mawe then having fild. c 1630 in Risdon Surv. Devon §308 (1810) 315 Our lofty tower'd trees..Did to the savage swine let fall their larding mast. |