Lard was also very expensive, typically inaccessible to the layman, who preferred to sell all animal products they could get their hands on. Fat was inaccessib

Lard was also very expensive, typically inaccessible to the layman, who preferred to sell all animal products they could get their hands on. Fat was inaccessible for cooking on a day to day basis, for anyone but the rich, until the introduction of seed oils.