Saturday, 1 March 2014

Making Lard

You should use back fat for this. If you are patient and heat slowly the lard is whiter.

Mince on the course setting and put in to a ceramic dish in to an oven at 90°C
It will take several hours for all the fat to come out, pour it off from time to time. The bits of fat will slowly brown and at some point I start pouring off in to a second bowl so I have some really white and some a bit more yellow. When it cools and sets it is paler than it looks as you pour it off.

One top one of these are bits cooking in a metal tin and the bottom is ones cooking in a ceramic tin. I was interested to see the marked difference in how fast they cooked. The little bits left over are very tasty with a bit of salt on.


The nice white stuff and the later slightly yellower stuff

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