Rendering Lard

[arms319]

Yesterday was my first ever attempt at rendering lard. It really was much easier than I expected. It is a time consuming process but it's nothing that you have to set and watch through the whole process. I started with 9 lbs of pork fat and ended with 3 quarts of nice lard. Here is a link to the video on my youtube page. 

youtu.be/WgOU5ATLzt8

[Brad H.]

Nice work, and way to get the kiddo involved. We render the lard from about 8 pigs each year, and use it for everything from baking to seasoning our cast iron. Did you save the cracklins? Supposedly they are amazing added into cookies, but I like to eat them like little pork rinds.

[shawn]

Brings back memories of fall at Grandma's farmhouse. Carrying buckets of lard from the slaughter shed to the house, and opening that farmhouse door and being blasted with the smell of frying fat. Some will know what I am talking about, I hated it and never got a hankering for cracklins either but do have fond memories of the rest that went with it, everything but the squeal was utilized. We washed intestines and then mixed up sausage to stuff them with, cured hams and bacon and then into the smoke house. Now that was a smell I liked. The next morning the kitchen would always smell better, Grandma would make fry bread in the freshly rendered lard. It's amazing how adding some bread dough and then a little sugar and cinnamon would make that fryed fat smell fade away.

[arms319]

Feb 5, 2016 12:18:09 GMT -5 Brad H. said:

Nice work, and way to get the kiddo involved. We render the lard from about 8 pigs each year, and use it for everything from baking to seasoning our cast iron. Did you save the cracklins? Supposedly they are amazing added into cookies, but I like to eat them like little pork rinds.

I did save most of them. I couldn't help giving a few to my chocolate lab who had to smell them cooking down all day. I actually fried up a few with some scrambled eggs this morning and it was pretty good. 

[farmertrappe]

Cool video, thanks for sharing guys.