Two cups of lard/Crisco would seem like too much for a 4 cups of flour recipe--I might use l/2 cup mixed into my milk mixture; but the flour that I work into that would not come near being 4 cups--that is enough to fill my little dough bowl and you would only use enough flour in that little bowl-like circle you form to pour the milk into. I realize this is a pretty difflcult visual, but once you try it, it is like putting a quilt square together--that "aha" moment, you know...