Making Lard At Home! It’s SO EASY!

It's time for Sarah to render some pig fat into lard. Sarah discusses many different topics regarding lard including how to render lard, why home-rendered lard ISN'T bad for you, why she renders lard and how to use it.

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[margarethauff]

Save your used cheese cloth in a baggie or a container. Use that for greasing your pans.

[irenedavis]

Hi guys! Irene from Brainstorm Acres here. Many years ago hubby was a fry cook, and they used lard. To make the darker lard white just boil it with water, about equal parts lard and water. Use a tall stock pot and boil about twenty minutes. Then let it cool. The fat will rise and solidify on top. You can do this more than once, with clean water if you want it whiter. It works! Love your channel!

[snapstring]

Lard has amino acids which actually helps your body breakdown stored fat in your body. Fat and meat 🥩 is not our enemy, but sugars are.

[myprettyredrose]

I have a friend that says that her children with allergies & adhd were completely off medication after raising & cooking everything from scratch at home, especially the lard. She says that it's not worth eating out once, for the consequences that her children have after ingesting processed food. I found that pretty amazing today as I watched this video, how true it is, that lard is not evil & bad! Thank you so much for your amazing videos, they are awesome & I learn something new every day!

[natureboy]

My grandmother, when I was a kid, rendered her suet or lard, on her big old cast iron wood burning stove at the farm. She would then clarify the lard, and any used lard that she had, by boiling equal parts lard to water for 20 minutes or so, let it get cold and solid. Separate it, (she kept the water, gel, from the first boil for broth latter) then she would repeat this until it was snow white. Somewhere between 1 and 3 times. She would then line her loaf pans with brown paper or butchers paper, which ever one she had on hand, press the cold lard in to the pans, then wrap them and stick them in the root cellar for latter use. Don't ever remember her ever having to throw any away. The cracklins she would spread out on a sheet pan, sprinkle with some salt. Put it on the very edge of the stove till they got good and crisp. She never had to worry about storing them cause they never lasted more then a day or two, didn't matter how much she had. :-)

[dorispowell]

I rendered mine in large roasting pan in the oven on very low heat. Worked very well and did not brown.

[indridcold]

All my great and grand parents used was lard ages 101, 91, 89 and 87 it's not the enemy lack of exercise is .Good info as always .

[danvanhoose]

We made own lard, dad would eat lard and pepper sandwiches in the winter.he was a carpenter working outside all winter.said it kept him warm.raised on lard cooking.

[MrsLovelyPendragon]

I love that you are respecting the animal and the environment by using every part of the animal. No waste and healthy healing food to sustain your family completes the circle of life in a balanced conscious and respectful way. ❤️

[juanitaspeak]

Great advice for those of us who haven't raised pigs yet! I will be checking my local butchers ASAP. This is yet another skill I can learn ahead of raising that particular animal so I feel less pressure later. Thank you! God bless

[biggeorgetx]

I can't think of a single instance where a back taste of bacon would be unpleasant.

[kerry]

I rendered 7 pints tonight…thanks for your help!! Love your channel Praise God you are teaching these ways of living!! God Bless you and Mr. Brown 💜

[LaurieChistine]

I love how you always do what you can to not waste anything.

[kerry]

I made 7 pints of lard from our pigs 🐖!! Thank You so much for sharing on your channel ways of living on your homestead!! We have learned so much from you and Kevin on how to do things on our homestead!! May God Continue to Bless You Both and your family 💜

[Miss]

Lard makes the best piecrust. Thanks for sharing.

[ayonke]

Lard is one of my favorite parts of raising pigs! You’ll have to try homemade tortillas and making your own soaps. Really enjoying your channel, so fun watching local people enjoy the things we do as well.

[Jules]

HI Sarah, Great information about lard. My grandmother used to render her own when she lived on her farm. They couldn't afford to purchase much except staples like flour, sugar, salt, etc. My mom used to tell us every Christmas about her stocking that they would get and it had an orange or apple, some penny candies and nuts. That was it for the stocking and she would get a new dress made from the flour sacks. But my grandmother used her bacon grease as well. She always reused it. She would make us fried apple pies and fry them in the bacon grease. That is the best pie you will ever eat. So bacon grease does go with sweet things.
I quite eating margarine when I read a study done back in the day when they first introduced it to the public. I don't remember who did the test but they put a cube of the "oleo" as they called it back then, on a dish and set it on a window seal. The report stated that it sat there for several months without growing mold or changing color and even the flies wouldn't touch it. After that I gave up the fake stuff and switch to the real stuff. I recently learned that they have proven that our bodies don't metabolize margarine. Our bodies don't know what to do with it. And if our bodies don't know what to do with it? Guess what it turns into? You got it, FAT! But our body does metabolize real butter it is not stored as fat unless you eat too much. Whoa, sorry for being so long winded. LOL!! Take care. God Bless!

[lanettelawrence]

Thank you very much.
I am 56 years old and I helped my Mississippi family at age ten or eleven butcher a hog and render lard from the pigs.
We were outside during this entire process.
There was a huge metal pot over an open fire and I recall constant stirring and water added to the pot of fat.
We started very early in the morning and we all finished by nightfall.
I was most happy to miss school for a few days (2).
Watching you made me want to try my hand at making my own lard.
I will talk to some butchers to find pork fat .

Thank you.

[kimberlyevans]

I can remember grandma with a big ol pot hanging above a small fire from a tree limb tripod. I can remember her stirring it but not what she done after that. So now I know for sure. Thanks for showing how you render your lard and thanks for reminding me of another fond memory with my granma.

[sierradates]

Thank you! This was perfect timing! We just bought half a pig from a local farmer for the first time and I needed a refresher course on how to render the lard.