What is "larding"

Lard \Lard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Larded; p. pr. & vb. n. Larding.] [F. larder. See Lard, n.]

1. To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry.

   And larded thighs on loaded altars laid.
   --Dryden.

2. To fatten; to enrich.

   [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.
   --Spenser.

   Falstaff sweats to death. And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
   --Shak.

3. To smear with lard or fat.

   In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes.
   --Somerville.

4. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
   --Shak.

   Let no alien Sedley interpose To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
   --Dryden.

n. (cx cookery English) Bacon or pork stuffed into other meat before cooking. vb. (present participle of lard English)