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Pork Back Fat (cooking lard-when rendered)

Pork Back Fat (cooking lard-when rendered)

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PORK BACK FAT
Lard, once you render it.
Clean back fat, sold by the pack.
BACK FAT
WHICH FAT
UNRENDERED
AS IT COMES
BAKING
WHERE IT SHINES
What makes it different
Back fat, specifically
The hard fat off the back, not the soft fat from around the organs. It renders cleaner, and it is the fat that charcuterie recipes mean when they just say pork fat.
Two things to do with it
Render it into lard for cooking and baking, or grind it in cold with lean meat wherever a sausage or pâté recipe calls for added fat.
Why lard is worth the trouble
A pie crust made with lard flakes in a way butter cannot manage, and lard fries hotter than most oils without breaking down.
Rendering is slow and almost entirely hands-off. If it browns, the heat was too high — good lard is close to white and tastes of almost nothing.
FROM THE FARM
We raise our hogs on pasture here in Monticello, Kentucky, and have every animal cut at a USDA-inspected plant down the road. We raise them, we have them cut, and we pack what comes back ourselves. This is the fat trimmed off those same animals.
How to render it
1
Cut it into small cubes, or grind it. Cold fat cuts far more easily than fat at room temperature.
2
Heavy pot, lowest heat, and a splash of water so nothing catches. Do not walk away for the first ten minutes.
3
Two to four hours. It is ready when the solids sink and turn golden and the liquid above them runs clear.
4
Strain it into jars. Months in the fridge, indefinitely in the freezer. The crisp solids left behind are cracklings.
What you're getting
Pork back fat, unrendered.
For rendering into lard, or grinding into sausage.
Raised on our farm in Monticello, Kentucky, and cut at a USDA-inspected plant.
Weights are averages. Every package is cut by hand, so no two are exactly alike.
Who vouches for us
Homegrown By Heroes
Homegrown By Heroes
Farmer veteran certified
Weston A. Price Foundation
Weston A. Price
Wise Traditions listed
Kentucky Proud
Kentucky Proud
KY Dept. of Agriculture
Appalachia Proud
Appalachia Proud
Mountains to Market
USDA inspected · Processed at USDA-inspected facilities in Science Hill, Kentucky and Walling, Tennessee

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