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08/03/13, 02:10 PM
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What can I do with....
The fat off of a pork roast.
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this question I wasn't sure where to post it.
I bought a pork roast yesterday and was cutting it up today to make 2-3 meals with it. And of course it had that thick fat across the bottom. Usually I just leave it on as I cook the whole roast at once. But since I was cutting it up I cut the fat off. The bottom piece was about 1/4 thick I guess. And some more I trimmed out of different areas of the roast too. I just don't want to waste it so I was wondering if there was something I could do with it.
Maybe make broth, or use it as lard somehow?
Thanks
Nancy
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08/03/13, 03:21 PM
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Put it in a bag and freeze it. Later it can be added to a pot of soup, kettle of beans, etc in one large chunk to just add to the flavor.
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08/03/13, 04:32 PM
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If you are going to have fried potatoes or the like just dice it in the skillet and render out the fat over medium heat and you will have lard. While still hot mash the chunks with the back of a spoon and drop on a paper towel. Salt the hunks lightly and hide from the others in the household and enjoy while still warm! 
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08/03/13, 05:19 PM
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Render it, feed the cracklings to the poultry or dogs, or make crackling bread.
Use the rendered fat for soap or soup or pastry or popping corn. 
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08/03/13, 05:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pony
Render it, feed the cracklings to the poultry or dogs, or make crackling bread.
Use the rendered fat for soap or soup or pastry or popping corn. |
If the dog or chickens got them at our house there would be a war 
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08/03/13, 05:49 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wanda
If the dog or chickens got them at our house there would be a war |
I have trouble when I eat too much fat, so the animals sometimes benefit from my issue.
Of course, the chickens give me eggs. The dogs give me... well, that incredible undemanding love that only a dog can give.
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08/04/13, 07:20 AM
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Did you leave any ON the roast for GRAVY???
geo
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08/04/13, 08:42 AM
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Geo,
I absolutely did leave some on. LOL
That's why when I am cooking the whole roast I never trim the fat.
But since I was cutting this one up for several meals I did do some trimming. LOL
I love making pulled pork bbq with these roast and I leave the fat on while cooking for the yummy flavor it adds.
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08/04/13, 09:36 AM
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I second what Dixie Bee Acres said, cut it up, freeze it & then you can use it in beans, green beans, soup or as a base for gravy. I also agree with all the other posters, so MANY good uses for pork fat.
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08/04/13, 04:30 PM
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We save it ALL till we make venson link sausage, Mercy that is some good stuff!!
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08/05/13, 12:09 PM
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Add to sausage, seasoning, etc. Love me some fat!
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08/06/13, 07:51 PM
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Save it in the freezer till ya get some deer meat. MMMMMMMMM
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08/06/13, 08:05 PM
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I won't lie, my dog gets most of the fat cap off the pork shoulder when we make one. I save some for green beans, but he looks so cute while we're standing there for an hour pulling it. He's so irresistibly adorable that he talks me into the fat since he sure isn't getting the meat.
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08/06/13, 10:14 PM
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Yep, it is the secret to good deer burger or deer sausage. The local butcher gives his extra beef and pork fat to me for the woodpecker feeder in the winter, but in the first few weeks after deer season there is none to be had because it is all going into deer sausage. Freeze you excess, and in the winter use if for that, or put it outside in some hardware cloth for the woodpeckers, or feed it to you outside dogs in cold weather. Fat is to carnivores like corn is to foraging animals.
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08/17/13, 05:13 PM
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render it into tallow.
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