Recipes - Lard and what you can make with it.

[TWP]

This skill will be a major benefit for a post "event" period of time.

These recipes can be done without electric power, just a skillet and pans.

Needless to say, you need to practice this before you are forced to do it by circumstance.

http://www.askaprepper.com/make-delicious-lard-2-years-shelf-life-5-tasty-recipes/

I will question the 2 year shelf life claimed in the title, but if you have cool storage spaces, you might get there.

[230gr]

My father ate Lard on Bread for his school lunch during the depression. Any butter was sold to keep the farm. Lard was cheap and provided a lot of calories; it was not a matter of taste.

When you look at colonial cooking, lard was indispensable. 

[TWP]

In a crisis situation, it's likely that any lard will be used up before it could go bad, so the shelf life is less important.

[230gr]

Back in Roman times, during the siege of an enemy that had taken refuge temple with a massive bronze door. They piled up firewood upon the the doors and lit fire too it. When they had a good fire going, they piled skins of lard on it directed a draft on it. The burning fat got to a temperature over 50oF above the melting point of bronze causing the doors to slump and incinerating everyone holding up in the temple.

Something to remember when you fry your next turkey!   

[TWP]

That's why you should always use a stainless steel pot for frying turkey...

It can be recovered from the ashes of your house for the next turkey fry.  Prepper planning.

[Jerry D Young]

Okay. That was funny, TWP. Sad. But funny.

Just my

[230gr]

Hard to broaden people's historical perspective sometimes.

[WolfBrother]

That's why you should always use a stainless steel pot for frying turkey...

It can be recovered from the ashes of your house for the next turkey fry.  Prepper planning.

Way back when I was a FFighter/EMT/Rescue type, we responded to a report of a garage fire.
Got there, it was a 3 bay detached garage and it was fully involved.  No saving it.
About the time we were protecting the exposures, the propane tank for the fryer they had put in the middle of the garage to keep the cold north wind off it cut loose. 

Made a nice little explosion.

Scared the crap out of most everyone. 

THEN the guy said, "Uh, yeah, I guess I should have told you about the propane tank in the middle of the garage."

Gotta love 'em.

[TWP]

WolfBrother,  at least the owner didn't have a home reloading bench in there too...  I watched one of those burn too.  From a long distance away.

At least lard is not explosive.