Now what?

medic92 · Jul 21, 2016

So I'm smoking ten pork shoulders for a charity golf outing tomorrow. I trimmed the shoulders and was left with a big pile of pig fat. I can't quit thinking it has to be useful somehow, so I ran it through a meat grinder, vacuum sealed it and put it in the freezer.

So what can I do with it?

Groundhog66 · Jul 21, 2016

Adding fat to another lean ground meat, or an adder when making sausage?

Cat797 · Jul 21, 2016

Make some brats or hot smoked polish! :biggrin1:

thunderalley3 · Jul 21, 2016

Google larding and barding, lots of uses for it

medic92 · Jul 21, 2016

I guess I should start learning how to make sausage. Or brats. Or smoked polish sausage.

I know about larding. I keep meaning to buy a larding needle sometime.

Smokin J's PIts · Jul 21, 2016

Add it to beans while you cook them

Norm · Jul 21, 2016

I like to cook it down to make lard with. I use it for pie crusts, tortilla shells, and to cook with instead of a veg oil.

medic92 · Jul 21, 2016

Norm said:
I like to cook it down to make lard with. I use it for pie crusts, tortilla shells, and to cook with instead of a veg oil.

I like that idea!

Norm · Jul 21, 2016

Not sure if you know this or not but the kind you buy in the store is hydrogenated. This kind is not so it has to be frozen for long term storage or will keep in the fridge for a week or two.

RolandJT · Jul 21, 2016

I would use it when cooking deer roasts or chicken breasts, etc.

Debone the deer and wrap it in the middle of the deer with twine or put it under the skin of the chicken

cats49er · Jul 21, 2016

Cut it into 2 or 3 inch pieces and fry it until all the fat has cooked out.You'll have cracklin left and lard when the grease cools.

Now what?

medic92

is one Smokin' Farker

Groundhog66

Babbling Farker

Cat797

is one Smokin' Farker

thunderalley3

Full Fledged Farker

medic92

is one Smokin' Farker

Smokin J's PIts

Full Fledged Farker

Norm

Quintessential Chatty Farker

medic92

is one Smokin' Farker

Norm

Quintessential Chatty Farker

RolandJT

is one Smokin' Farker

cats49er

is Blowin Smoke!

Similar threads