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Lard can go rancid pretty easy.
Does it smell bad?

Rich girls use Vaseline,
Poor girls use lard,
My girl uses axle grease...........


This is not the freak show!

Daisy fresh. Right off the store shelf. Smells great. I used to help make lard with friends at butchering time just never cooked with it.

When I was growing up never knew there was any other way to cook meat other than frying it in lard....

Only on the 'fire, would something as simple as lard cause such a fuss.

I knew old folks that would "butter" their bread with lard when the cow was dry.

They weren't about to buy butter from the store.

Not in my experience.

Mom used to make bacon fat or lard sandwiches...slightly salted...on rye bread
topped of with cucumbers on top..
Delicious !
Poor man's peanut butter

I know the old lady and her Mexican fried use lard in their tamales, only way to do it....

Got 3 quarts of bear lard in the freezer right now. Done properly, bear lard is the bomb. We love cooking with it though I don't think have fried with it. And I have enough on hand to use on muzzleloader patches and boot leather. Absolutely odorless if rendered and filtered.

We used to make it. Butchering 6-10 fat hogs a year. Quite a few 50# cans.
Sold some to small bakeries, kept the rest for family. Maybe it we had it longer than normal.

PS. We did hogs different than normal now. We didn't butcher 250# pigs. We normally had hams
that weighed 50#+, each. Those size hogs make a lot of lard, and taste better.

Bear lard is great, might have to put some effort into killin a huckleberry bear this year...

I have never made my own. All store bought.

Everything at her house is poached.

Yep!
Frying and seasoning iron are not necessarily the same thing.

WTF do you do with a #50 ham? I cook an #8 ham on a Sunday and we have sandwiches all week plus have enough leftover for omelets on the following Sunday.

Fried ham.


And eggs, with fried potatoes.


Any guess what was used to fry everything!
Ham and beans, ham potpie.

We cured them ourselves. To save money.
Now days, we could call them "artisan" and charge big $$$.


We would buy "city" hams to bake

Farmers markets usually have someone selling pig fat. I've bought that and rendered lard from it before. The cracklings that remain after the lard is rendered are pretty good to eat.

Ditto.

Chiiiiitttt.....that ain't nothing.....you should see the speculating, conclusion jumping, and knee jerk reactions we can conger up over a simple little Yeti coffee mug

Considering that he said they'd sell some to bakeries I'm thinking those 50# cans were full of lard.