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Old Fri, Jul-21-17, 21:17
lvin4jc lvin4jc is offline
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Default What do I do with all this homemade Lard?

I got into making homemade Pork "Cracklins" which are the tastiest thing possibly ever.

However, as a byproduct, I have lots of pure white filtered Lard in my fridge. I have never cooked with Lard and when I search it online all I see are baking recipes which obviously aren't all that useful to me.

So what do you do with this stuff?

I just fried my eggs in it, it was pretty tasty but I still prefer my Kerrigold butter over it. Any other suggestions?
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Old Sat, Jul-22-17, 05:32
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Hi. I don't keep it around often any more, but when I did, I liked to use it for stir fries and any other dishes in which I didn't want the taste of butter in the final product. I also liked it for frying up burgers, fish, etc that was too lean and/or didn't have enough fat of its own. (I buy whatever's on sale and sometimes it's extra-lean ground beef.)

I used it to make biscuits for the non-LCer of the house, too.

The good news is, since it's rendered and the water is cooked out, it'll last a really long time in your fridge.

You could try making soap out of it.

I have the same problem with bacon grease now. We eat a lot of bacon and I hate wasting the leftover fat, but I don't want everything tasting like bacon. Maybe I should make more bacon mashed cauliflower, etc. I tried the bacon mayo once, but it was pretty wasteful because we might have used a few Tbsps of it, and we were sick of it (and it doesn't keep very long.)
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Old Sat, Jul-22-17, 06:13
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...Any other suggestions?

Send it to me - I use it for cooking too, Mostly from getting one of those huge blocks of bacon bits and scraps at walmart and cooking it all down then freezing portions and haveing some in refrigerator.

Lately I've just been skipping that process and rendering down the amount of bacon, back fat or pork belly needed to cook a dish. In fact here's an example this morning ... a little movie I made starting with one slice of fatty think bacon, kind of just the right amount of fat for 3 eggs and vegetables I used...

http://downhaul.com/lowcarb/2017misc/fastFlomelette.mp4

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Old Sat, Jul-22-17, 10:17
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Hi. I don't keep it around often any more, but when I did, I liked to use it for stir fries and any other dishes in which I didn't want the taste of butter in the final product. I also liked it for frying up burgers, fish, etc that was too lean and/or didn't have enough fat of its own. (I buy whatever's on sale and sometimes it's extra-lean ground beef.)

I used it to make biscuits for the non-LCer of the house, too.

The good news is, since it's rendered and the water is cooked out, it'll last a really long time in your fridge.

You could try making soap out of it.

I have the same problem with bacon grease now. We eat a lot of bacon and I hate wasting the leftover fat, but I don't want everything tasting like bacon. Maybe I should make more bacon mashed cauliflower, etc. I tried the bacon mayo once, but it was pretty wasteful because we might have used a few Tbsps of it, and we were sick of it (and it doesn't keep very long.)


You're confirming what I was already thinking, looks like I probably won't have a lot of use for lard. But i'm sure I can find someone that would love it and give it to them

I can't think of a single thing that I wouldn't want to taste more like butter or bacon, lol. But I do understand what you were saying about added bacon grease just making it too greasy, kind if a gross feeling in your stomach if it gets to be too much.
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Old Sat, Jul-22-17, 10:18
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Send it to me - I use it for cooking too, Mostly from getting one of those huge blocks of bacon bits and scraps at walmart and cooking it all down then freezing portions and haveing some in refrigerator.

Lately I've just been skipping that process and rendering down the amount of bacon, back fat or pork belly needed to cook a dish. In fact here's an example this morning ... a little movie I made starting with one slice of fatty think bacon, kind of just the right amount of fat for 3 eggs and vegetables I used...

http://downhaul.com/lowcarb/2017misc/fastFlomelette.mp4



Nice video making skills! I've done the same, just usually use bacon and again, I don't think adding pure lard would add anything to the experience. You're making me hungry now
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