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RENDERING LARD | JUST A PINCH RECIPES
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, perfect for the low heat and minimal chance of burning the lard. If you have ever made lard in a pot on the stove top, and burned it, you will understand why the slow cooker is the best option. The rule of thumb is 1 quart of lard is rendered from 2 lbs of pig fat.
Provided by Lee Thayer @LeeNST
Categories Other Sauces
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 9 hours
Yield 1
Number Of Ingredients 2
Steps:
- 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.
- Dice the fat into 1/2 to 3/4 inch pieces.
- 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.
- After 1 hour, give the pot a stir and you will see some liquid in the pot, that is the fat being rendered.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cooled and solidified, perfect!
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Place the fat in your slow cooker. And proceed with adding the 1/4 cup of water and setting the cooker to Low.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Jan 26, 2015 · Place the thawed ground hog fat in a slow cooker or crock pot, 6-8 quart in size. set on high (large enough for the lard to fit in) add 1/3 cup of water (this gives some moisture to start melting the fat) cover or uncovered, let cook for 4-5 hours or until the hog fat cracklings turns brown and starts to sink to the bottom of crock
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HOW TO RENDER LARD IN A CROCK POT | ALL THE NOURISHING THINGS
Feb 01, 2018 · How To Render Lard In A Crock Pot. Step 1: When rendering in a cast iron skillet, the fat pieces should be cut up into smaller bits. In a crock pot, you can leave the pieces much larger ... Step 2: Step 3: Storage: Have you ever rendered lard? Do you prefer the stove top or the crock pot?
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HOW TO RENDER LARD IN A CROCK POT - MOMMYPOTAMUS
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HOW TO RENDER LARD USING A SLOW COOKER | A FARM GIRL IN ...
Jul 05, 2021 · This ensures the lard is snow white in color and has less of a pork like flavor. Place the cut fat into the slow cooker, setting the temperature to low. The rendering process will take roughly 8 to 10 hours. Within 2 hours the lard will begin to melt, at this point make sure to gently stir the fat 2 hours.
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RENDERING LARD IN THE CROCK-POT
Using a crock-pot to render lard is a safer (you still need to be careful when you have hot oil and a heat source) and in my opinion , easier way to cook down beef or pig fat into a creamy white lard that makes pie crust taste wonderful. I found a great deal on marked down pieces of beef fat at the grocery store.
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HOW TO RENDER LARD IN A CROCK POT - YOUTUBE
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HOW TO MAKE LARD IN YOUR CROCKPOT • SUMMER YULE NUTRITION
May 13, 2020 · Instructions Be sure to read the post before you begin this recipe. It contains more details on the equipment that you need for this... Keep the slabs of fatback at 38-40°F/3.3-4.4°C (almost frozen) for easier cutting and grinding. Cut the fatback into... Using a meat grinder, coarsely grind the ...
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HOW TO RENDER LARD THE RIGHT WAY (SNOW WHITE, ODORLESS ...
How to Render Lard the Right Way (Snow White, Odorless) Step 1. Cut your leaf lard or back fat into small pieces. *Tip – Ask your family farmer to have the fat ground. The process is much quicker and in my opinion, leads to better results. Step 2. Add 1/4 cup of water to the bottom of a crock pot and add the cut up pork fat. (The water will prevent the fat from burning before the pork fat starts to melt.
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HOW TO RENDER LARD IN A CROCK POT – MY MERRY MESSY LIFE
Add the ground or chopped lard to your crock pot, add about 1/4 cup of water and turn it on Low. The water will evaporate (do not put the lid on) and will help keep the lard from scorching. As the lard melts, add more until al of the lard is in the crock pot.
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RENDERING LEAF LARD IN A CROCK POT | PRAIRIE PRIDE FARM OF ...
Sep 08, 2014 · I finally have written down my recipe/method for rendering lard in a crock pot. This method is very safe and EASY to do. Please go to my recipe page for the method and photos. When I was a young girl, living on a dairy farm in southern Minnesota, I would help my Mom render hog fat to make lard. She used a double boiler on the wood stove!
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HOW TO RENDER LARD THE RIGHT WAY (SNOW WHITE, ODORLESS ...
How to Render Lard the Right Way (Snow White, Odorless) Step 1. Cut your leaf lard or back fat into small pieces. *Tip – Ask your family farmer to have the fat ground. The process is much quicker and in my opinion, leads to better results. Step 2. Add 1/4 cup of water to the bottom of a crock pot and add the cut up pork fat. (The water will ...
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HOW TO RENDER LARD - FARM BELL RECIPES
Aug 09, 2010 · I use a crock pot with enough fat to about fill up my small 3 1/2-quart crock pot. This renders down to a quart of regular, creamy-white baking lard plus a half-pint of what is called savory lard and the cracklins. (You actually get three products out of one job! The mild baking lard, the savory lard, and the guilty pleasure of the cracklins.)
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RENDERING LARD - SHADY GROVE RANCH
Cook thawed chopped/ground fat over low heat in a heavy pot until fat melts out. Keep heat low to keep lard white and clean-tasting. Strain liquid fat before storage. Method 2: Crock Pot Rendered Lard Pros: Easier, hands-free method No pot on the stove Can be done overnight. Cons: Very slow method Lard will tend to be darker and taste porkier
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HOW TO RENDER LARD • THE RUSTIC ELK
Nov 29, 2021 · How to Render Lard in a Slow Cooker. By far the easiest way to render lard is using a crockpot. You won’t have to watch it much and can just go about whatever you need to get done. In fact, we had to run to town and I was able to start the process before we left, makes it nice.
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RENDERING LARD FROM PORK FAT - BASIC RECIPES AND ...
Add the water and salt (optional) to the saucepan or crock pot and place pieces of fat inside. Set the temperature to the lowest heat setting. Some liquid oil will start forming approximately one hour after the start of the process. Stir the lard around. Repeat that occasionally (about every 30 minutes or so) until all of the pig fat is melted.
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HOW TO RENDER LARD • THE PRAIRIE HOMESTEAD
Jan 30, 2013 · We also use the crock pot to render pork fat. My husband calls it pig butter. ?? ... My pie crust recipe calls for 1/3 cup lard per crust, and my tortilla recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups lard, so for me these sizes make sense. You could also use custard cups or some other container and cool in 1-cup increments. Just a suggestion.
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RENDER PORK FAT INTO LARD | MADE FROM SCRATCH RECIPE
May 14, 2014 · Rendering lard is an extremely messy process. Keep the mess confined by using a large cutting board of metal sheet for your draining of the large from the pieces. I also used a measuring cut and funnel to pour the grease into the jars without too much mishap. Make Lard from Scratch Ingredients: Pork Fat chopped into cubes 1 cup water Crockpot ...
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HOW TO RENDER TALLOW: EASY CROCKPOT METHOD - BUMBLEBEE ...
Oct 31, 2018 · The rendering process. Next, toss all of the fat into a crock pot and set the crock. pot to low. Just leave it for a few hours, and check on it every now and then. As the fat begins to render, it will pop and crackle. Once the noise dies down, and all you see in the crockpot is lots of liquid tallow and some crispy bits, the tallow is done.
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HOW TO RENDER TALLOW OR LARD IN AN INSTANTPOT
Apr 08, 2016 · It was pretty awesome. When I was finished, I jarred up the lard to be used for frying and the tallow for future batches of lotion (recipe coming soon). 1. Cut fat into small chunks. 2. Place cut up fat and 1/4 cup water into Instant Pot. 3. Close lid, making sure floating stopper is sealed. 4.
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HOW TO RENDER ANIMAL FAT IN A CROCK POT - THE COCONUT MAMA
Nov 05, 2012 · Place your ground lard or suet in your crock pot and turn the heat on low. Leave it alone for an hour or two (depends on how much you are rendering). Once the fat turns to liquid and all you have left are cracklings, you are done! The cracklings usually settle at the bottom of the crock pot. Gently pour rendered fat through a cheesecloth lined ...
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HOW TO RENDER LAMB OR GOAT TALLOW AT HOME - SHEPHERD SONG FARM
Rendering outside makes it so the house is scent-free, and as bonus, the lard always comes out perfectly. To render the lamb or goat tallow in a slow cooker, put the fat in the slow cooker and cook on low for 8-12 hours, breaking it up and stirring here and there to help it render.
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