What? How? Who?

[mme_hardy]

Deep-frying foods in vegetable oil seems like a modern American craze, but it was an ancient cooking tradition in West Africa, and one that we have inherited from enslaved people.

Akara sounds pretty tasty, but that's a bizarre sentence up there.

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[malkingrey]

Lard, probably. Or olive oil, if they were in the Mediterranean. Or goose, duck, or chicken fat.

As far as I could ever tell, most pre-modern recipes for fried things tend to more or less assume the locally-used cooking fat. It's only these days, really, that we've got access to the whole global array.