My grandma Ketchum lived to be 94 and never ate a piece of toast. Always biscuits. Grandpa (lived to 87), always ate them too, and if he didn't have gravy on them, he would take butter and sorgum and stir it together on his plate with a knife, and then spread it on the biscuits. I thought everyone ate it that way. Grandma used to take the lard, and make lye soap out of it. Mom said everyone in the winter had chapped hands from the soap and the cold. Even all the kids at school. They didn't use tallow for the soap, because the cows they had were for milk, not eating, so it was just pig fat (lard). My mom says that lard makes the best pie crust there ever was. Kathy