I used to use bacon grease to make cornbread. It gave it a good flavor and a nice crispy crust. Sadly pork is one of the triggers for my wife’s migraines.
Oh my, oh my! I remember having a jar of bacon fat in the kitchen for cooking with, but I don’t think it was ever used to cook sausage…………I may be wrong. You are definitely right about people!
I remember those good old days using bacon fat for cooking. I am now a healthy 150 pounds lighter than back then, so sadly it’s a distant memory, but a good one.
I met my great-however many greats-uncle Jessie when I was around 8 or 9 years old. He was a farmer. He and his wife were, at the time, 95, and worked their farm with their 60+ year old mentally challenged son.
They had bacon and sausage and eggs and grits cooked in bacon fat for breakfast every morning. Lunch was generally some kind of meat and vegetable cooked in bacon fat or lard (what’s the difference? I don’t know). Dinner was similar to lunch. This was basicly it, except on Sunday they went to church. Work, eat stuff my doctor would have a stroke about, a little home-made moonshine before bed.
I don’t know how much longer they lived, Uncle Jesse wasn’t very social and we didn’t live anywhere near – but, hey, 95 and still going strong!
On the other hand, my dad, his great-nephew (however many greats) died at 48 eating a somewhat healthier diet and teaching electronics.
Draw your own conclusions – and I don’t HAVE any bacon fat, darn it…
GirlGeek Premium Member over 5 years ago
Where’s the bacon though?
katina.cooper over 5 years ago
Dan will just have to walk an extra quarter of a mile or give up bacon fat. I think he’ll go for the exercise.
The Legend of Brandon Sawyer over 5 years ago
Best reasoning I have ever heard
banjinshiju over 5 years ago
I used to use bacon grease to make cornbread. It gave it a good flavor and a nice crispy crust. Sadly pork is one of the triggers for my wife’s migraines.
Perkycat over 5 years ago
Oh my, oh my! I remember having a jar of bacon fat in the kitchen for cooking with, but I don’t think it was ever used to cook sausage…………I may be wrong. You are definitely right about people!
BJIllistrated Premium Member over 5 years ago
I remember those good old days using bacon fat for cooking. I am now a healthy 150 pounds lighter than back then, so sadly it’s a distant memory, but a good one.
sew-so over 5 years ago
If this helps any…
I met my great-however many greats-uncle Jessie when I was around 8 or 9 years old. He was a farmer. He and his wife were, at the time, 95, and worked their farm with their 60+ year old mentally challenged son.
They had bacon and sausage and eggs and grits cooked in bacon fat for breakfast every morning. Lunch was generally some kind of meat and vegetable cooked in bacon fat or lard (what’s the difference? I don’t know). Dinner was similar to lunch. This was basicly it, except on Sunday they went to church. Work, eat stuff my doctor would have a stroke about, a little home-made moonshine before bed.
I don’t know how much longer they lived, Uncle Jesse wasn’t very social and we didn’t live anywhere near – but, hey, 95 and still going strong!
On the other hand, my dad, his great-nephew (however many greats) died at 48 eating a somewhat healthier diet and teaching electronics.
Draw your own conclusions – and I don’t HAVE any bacon fat, darn it…
Chris Sherlock over 5 years ago
Sausage fried in bacon fat! Sounds heavenly. My idea of the perfect food, however, would be bacon-wrapped sausage. Make it so, cooks on The Kitchen!
Laurie Sefton Premium Member over 5 years ago
…and they don’t make a medicine for that….
Purple-Stater Premium Member over 5 years ago
Lard, the healthiest cooking fat/oil, as long as it’s not hydrogenated. And yummiest.