Looking for a lard pie crust recommendation!

The most cookie-like crust (sweet/crumbly as opposed to flaky) I know is Pate Sablee. In fact, scraps can be baked into cookies. I typically use it for e.g., lemon or chocolate tarts - my go to is Patricia Wells' recipe. No lard, but I'd guess you could sub it for part of the butter.

However, it's typically used for tarts - hard to roll (pushing it into place in a tart pan work great) so maybe difficult for a pie with top crust.

Pate Sablee, you can use it for biscuits or crust.

I would try recipes for pâte brisée or pâte sucrée. The latter has the addition of sugar. These are two French names for shortcrust pastry dough variants.

I can't tell by the nebulous description whether you are trying to duplicate just the texture of a sugar cookie or if you wanted some of the actual sweetness in the dough.

I'm sure the dough recipes from any reputable source should be fine. Most will probably be butter based, but you should be able replace the butter with lard.

Mimi Sheraton, a food critic at the New York Times from the mid seventies to mid eighties - first female food critic there, by the way - published in one of her cookbooks in the early 80s a recipe for "Murbeteig or Sugar-Cookie Dough", which she got from a German chef who was well known in New York City at the time. Mürbeteig is a German sweet short crust pastry. I've never made this recipe with lard instead of butter, but don't see any reason why one could not do so.

I checked the Times archives and happily, the recipe was also published in the Times while Sheraton was there, and has been reformatted for current access: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/5632-murbeteig-or-sugar-cookie-dough
That's where I'd start. (I'd use half butter and half lard, for the butter flavor.) ;o)

I'm not sure if this would help you to any great degree (chefjune's post seemed to be about the most plausible explanation), but I posted my recipe for Lard and Vodka pie crust here:
https://food52.com/recipes/39624-lard-and-vodka-pie-crust

Most probably British and almost certainly a Shortcrust pastry. Look for recipes from Ramsay, 2 Fat Ladies, Hairy Bikers, Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson.

You don't need a "lard recipe." You can replace the formerly espoused shortening 1 for 1 with lard. That works fine.

can you elaborate? Like a sugar cookie or a snickerdoodle or a shortbread type of texture? I use lard in my pie crusts, but I don't think I'd call it "cookie-like"