Bacon Grease

[brassrat]

I think I make bacon just to pour the fat in my jar

[ioon44]

We have been doing BLT sandwiches lately and saving the bacon grease to cook eggs with but not something we do a lot.

[dale2242]

Bacon grease is required for frying buck steaks.

[Bull]

This was great to read, my grandmother always had the coffee can of grease on the match-lit gas stove. I learned to cook helping mom and her. Bacon grease made everything better.
The best thing is making pie crust with bacon grease. Dang now I have to go make one, but blueberry pie or peach cobbler or blackberry cobbler.

[WILCO]

I keep my bacon grease in a jar.
Use it frequently too.

[hk940]

My mother always used bacon fat to cook our eggs. My uncle lived to 97 and used bacon grease all of his life. I keep a container in the fridge at all times.
My friend would add it to Manhattan clam chowder.

[brassrat]

Still on this subject?Okey doke. If my boss knew what bacon grease was I would ask to be paid in bacon. I recently cooked a lb up on an old electric griddle my young nephew didnt want. No more straining to pour my booty out of a cast iron pan and a Dutch oven. I would fight to pour thru a very fine strainer into the jars, and lose half. The griddle drains into a small tray that yielded a good amount after easily pouring into the center of the strainer and right into the jar. Really clean with my strainer.

[farmbif]

got some sitting in pan on stove right now. it will get mixed with the dogs food in the morning so rufuss gets a treat.
I know there are many other uses for it but he sure does enjoy it mixed with the kibble. if I just throw the dry food on top of it in pan and give him the pan he will dig to the bottom and slobber up the bacon goodness first.

[GONRA]

GONRA's parents never wasted Bacon Fat in WW II .
Never turned it in for Weekly Pickup....
Used it in cooking and popcorn making,,,,

[MaryB]

Bacon fat popcorn... heaven! Add some BBQ rub and smothered in butter... are your arteries hardening yet? LOL

[firefly1957]

I am pretty certain I have replied here before I use bacon grease mixed with bird seed for cold weather suet .

I do cook in fresh bacon grease from time to time .

[MrWolf]

We mix the bacon grease with oats (as in oatmeal and not feed) for our chickens. They absolutely love em. They get real quiet while they are all eating (8 of them) they are so happy.

[Rapier]

Well enjoy, my Cardiologist said my cholesterol was too high at 78, Geez I guess I am on a green grass and distilled water regiment. But bacon grease all my life, home made biscuits with a table spoon dipped in BG to make a depression on each one going into the oven served with fresh churned butter, and home made fig preserves.

[gwpercle]

My Uncle , who owned an East Texas BBQ joint for years , made the best biscuits I have ever eaten ... He gave me his recipe , there are two secrets to them :
1.) Must be cooked in a wood fired cast iron stove .

2.) Bacon Grease / Lard (50-50) must be used .

I have tried but I just don't have the knack , mine never equal his ... mine eat like hockey pucks ...dense !
It must be a God Given talent and I wasn't born with it .
I can make some good Fig Preserves ... but that's a whole nuther skill set and I got the knack for jams , jellies and preserves !
Gary

[david s]

Two more secrets to good biscuits are 1, just enough flour to hold the grease/lard together and 2, don't over work your dough. Keep trying your uncle's recipe, as you've noted a good biscuit makes pretty good eating.

[Wild Bill 7]

We save and use our bacon grease all the time. We have four jars in the fridge now. Use it to fry eggs with a little butter also. Yum!!!

[MaryB]

My Uncle , who owned an East Texas BBQ joint for years , made the best biscuits I have ever eaten ... He gave me his recipe , there are two secrets to them :
1.) Must be cooked in a wood fired cast iron stove .

2.) Bacon Grease / Lard (50-50) must be used .

I have tried but I just don't have the knack , mine never equal his ... mine eat like hockey pucks ...dense !
It must be a God Given talent and I wasn't born with it .
I can make some good Fig Preserves ... but that's a whole nuther skill set and I got the knack for jams , jellies and preserves !
Gary

Use a biscuit cutter and cut straight down, if you twist it seals the biscuit edges... and they don't rise as much.

[white eagle]

not in a tin can but yes use it a lot can't go without
good stuff Maynard

[Shiloh]

I have a pint and a half in the fridge.
Shiloh

[choctaw/creek]

Another dish down south is scalded lettuce and of course with bacon grease!!

I could make a meal out of wilted lettuce with onion and a pan of cornbread. I haven't had that since I was a kid. Bacon grease is essential for my home made cornbread. It doesn't taste right without it. I also use it to make my sawmill gravy for biscuits or fried chicken and mashed potatoes.