RENDERING LARD
Rendering pig fat produces lard, which a natural fat and is actually healthier than many vegetable oils. It has a high smoke point which makes it ideal for deep frying and is ideal for pastry making. I used to render bear fat when I was growing up and that, makes the best pastry, hands down. This process uses a slow cooker,...
Provided by Lee Thayer
Categories Other Sauces
Time 9h20m
Number Of Ingredients 2
Steps:
- 1. FOR CUBED FAT: Trim any large pieces of meat from the fat, does not have to be perfect, just remove the large bits. If you buy the fat at Tesco, it will be back fat and all be trimmed and in large pieces. In the US try and get leaf fat from a reputable farmer that is from pasture raised pigs. I bought 5 slabs at Tesco, about 3/4 inch thick that came out to 1 kilo in weight. Slabs are skin and fat.
- 2. Dice the fat into 1/2 to 3/4 inch pieces.
- 3. Add the fat to your slow cooker and add a 1/4 cup of water (the water evaporates off). Place the lid on the cooker and set the cooker to Low setting.
- 4. After 1 hour, give the pot a stir and you will see some liquid in the pot, that is the fat being rendered.
- 5. Continue to stir every hour until the fat is fully melted or is brown bits on the bottom of the pot that start to float again. At this point, the lard is ready. Mine was ready in 15 hours.
- 6. Pour the lard through cheese cloth placed in a strainer, over a pot, Let the brown bits (crackling) drain for about 20 minutes or so. Remove the strainer and set aside with the cracklings.
- 7. Pour the lard into a quart jar and allow to cool on the counter uncovered. Once cooled, cover and store in the fridge until use.
- 8. Cooled and solidified, perfect!
- 9. Bonus item! Heat a non stick pan and when hot, dump the cracklings, the left over bits in the cheese cloth, into the pan, season with salt and herbs of your choice, fry until crispy, enjoy!
- 10. FOR COARSE GROUND FAT: If you have an electric meat grinder, and a coarse plate, the coarse plate I have is called the wagon wheel. Assemble your grinder with clean sterile parts. Do not add the hopper tray, the try that fits on top of the feed tube, first, it is not needed, two, less to wash later.
- 11. To prepare the fat, you want is very cold, not frozen. Place the fat skin side up on a cutting board, cut into strips that are about 3/8 inch wide, once all the strips are cut, check each one for any meat tissue and trim that off. Be careful doing this as pieces will be very slippery. Here you can see the strips and the meat tissue I removed on the right.
- 12. Place a bowl to catch the fat. For this method, you are not going to load up the hopper with a bunch fat, you are going to do this one strip at a strip at a time, as the grinder is grinding the skin as well, so we do not want to overwhelm the grinder or slow the motor. Turn the grinder on and drop in a fat strip, when that is coming out, drop in another. This actually goes quite fast.
- 13. Place the fat in your slow cooker. And proceed with adding the 1/4 cup of water and setting the cooker to Low.
- 14. Stir every hour, the fat and skin will turn golden brown and the bits will sink to the bottom, when they start to float, the lard is ready. Mine was ready after 9 hours.
- 15. Pour the lard through cheese cloth placed in a strainer, over a pot, Let the brown bits drain for about 20 minutes or so. Remove the strainer and discard the bits, they are so small, don't worry about using them cracklings.
- 16. Pour the lard into a quart jar and allow to cool on the counter uncovered. Once cooled, cover and store in the fridge until use.
RENDERED LARD
Provided by Alton Brown
Time 3h15m
Yield 1 1/2 cups rendered fat
Number Of Ingredients 2
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
- Cut the fatback into 1/4-inch cubes and put it into a 6 to 8 quart Dutch oven. Add the water. Put in the oven, uncovered and stir every 30 to 40 minutes, pressing the pieces against the pan in order to help them melt. Cook until the fat has melted, the water has evaporated and the pieces begin to brown slightly, approximately 3 to 4 hours. Pour through a fine mesh strainer into a heatproof container and allow the fat to cool completely before covering and storing in the refrigerator.
HOW TO RENDER LARD
This makes such a superior product. Easy to do but takes awhile. This recipe calls for pork fat but I have rendered lard from bear and it came out excellent.
Provided by Aroostook
Categories Pork
Time 3h30m
Yield 20 lbs.
Number Of Ingredients 2
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 225 degrees F.
- Wash and chill fat.
- Cut into small pieces (1 inch).
- Place 1 cup of fat in roasting pan.
- Place in oven.
- When fat starts to melt, add more pieces until roaster is about half full.
- Render until all is melted and all moisture is cooked off and evaporated.
- Let cool slightly.
- Dip liquid from roaster and strain through triple layer of cheesecloth.
- (Note:After you have dipped out most of the lard and you have bits of crackling left, continue to cook these down on top of stove but watch it closely and don't let it get too hot.) Pour into 5 to 10 pound containers.
- Cover tightly.
- Store immediately in a freezer if possible.
- Quick cooling produces a fine grained lard.
- Store in freezer.
- You can increase storage time for this lard by adding a 3 pound can of vegetable shortening to every 50 pounds of lard.
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