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Hmmmm. Lard bricks?  The mind boggles! |
homemade lard is very useful in cooking and baking...
we dry-rendered it, so it's totally pure, as safe as butter... and makes GREAT pie crusts !!
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-lard.htm
yummy yum... pastries comin' up next !!
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Couldn't you just stick a wick up the middle of them and call them candles? 
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And that pork crackle thingy! Is that like beef jerky, only pork? 
It looks like pig skin to me........
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pork rinds, yes...
the Brits call them scratchings... Latin Americans call 'em chicharones, and USians call them cracklings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_rind
the deep-fried pieces are highly caloric, and VERY high in sodium, so I tasted only a few, and let our helpers have the rest...
mmmmmmm... muy delicioso y sabroso !!
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OMG! I just realised what you said! Has Kevin Bacon gone to the great freezer in the sky then?
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si, si, senora... Mr. Bacon was getting upwards of 300 lbs, so... it was time.
this was our first pig... we did it right here in our yard... the whole thing !!
thankfully, we had help from a village family, because there was a LOT of work involved.
