Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bread and lard adj.

hard.

1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 268: A tosser on a Wilkie Bard, / A lord on a Charing Cross, / Is ’ow I fell, and it’s bread-’n-lard / To bear my milkman’s ’orse.
1972		Dodson & Saczek Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl. 23: Ain’t that bread and lard?
2002		B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.