Homemade cornbread with lard spread on it and a shake of salt..yummy!
You can make some very nice bars of soap if you have access to cheap or free lard.
Hogfat and ashes soap is wonderful!
Granny Clampett was right :-)
This is pretty much the same process my grandmother used for making homemade lye for making soap.
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_ashlye.html