[f. LARD v. + -ING1.] 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 Landlord, a small yearly Rent by this Name.
1870. Warne’s Everyday Cookery, 23. *Larding needle, made with split ends, like a cleft stick, to receive strips of fat bacon.
1598. Florio, Lardaruola, a lardrie, a larder, a *larding pinne.
1693. Lond. Gaz., No. 2853/4. 1 Orange Strainer, 1 Larding Pin.
1697. trans. C’tess. D’Aunoy’s Trav. (1706), 201. Don Augustin intreated me also, to let him have some of my Larding-Pins.
1796. Mrs. 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.
