I know, I know, I've been remiss in my bacon blogging. And yesterday's fantastic Thanksgiving meal did not include a single shred of bacon. But I did just chop and cook a pound of bacon, and like I usually do, I drained the bacon fat into a container (usually a small yogurt container), set it on top of the fridge to cool and be refrigerated later. I use a little bit of lard to cook eggs, scrambled and over-easy, but I have mostly non-stick cookware, so I don't need to use a lot of fat, and when my lard container is full, I just throw it away. This is beginning to strike me as a bad thing. What a waste of perfectly good fat! My mother used to buy lard and cook with it, so why don't I do that? I could use it instead of butter, apparently it makes for tender baked goods in a pie crust.
So I just googled "cook with lard" and found all kinds of good hits. I'll save them here, to look at later, and I think I'll make my next apple pie with lard instead of butter.
Don't worry, I won't spring it on any unsuspecting friends of mine. I know too many people who are vegetarians. Disclosure is a good thing.
Anyhoo, here are some lardy links:
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