“Larder” does come from “lard” and shows its origins as the room where bacon was stored.

• 01.058 about the inside of my larders
• 02.116 at what they had got from the trolls’ larder.
• 09.062 of a well-filled larder.

“larder, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 13 May 2015.