Posted on 08/25/2021 2:41:34 PM PDT by mylife
Also, for all the southern folks here...It’s hard to beat redeye gravy and biscuits....
Mr. Gruber was already in his 70s back in the early 1980's when I was Scout. He was blind in one eye, and had been a Scout Master forever, and still came along with the Dads and other Scout Masters because I suspect he brought the moonshine, which came out when we kids had gone to bed. He always joked with us kids how spoiled we for one thing or another, when he grew up in Eastern KY, he didn't have running water or electricity, etc..etc... Bacon grease was probably like liquid gold.
Asparagus sauteed in bacon grease for 1 minute. Tellin’ ya.
We use a big old cup. Always out
Grandma would make biscuits every morning. Roll them out and cut them, plop them in a rectangular pan with about half inch of melted bacon grease in it,
then flip each one over and bake to a golden brown in a wood stove.
Grandpa kept beehives even though he was allergic to bee stings, so there was always honey comb in a jar on the table along with home churned butter from their jersey cow.
Sometimes there was also sorghum that you could mix with the butter for a delicious spread for the biscuits.
Of course, always bacon or salt pork and eggs. Sometimes fried squirrel.
There are instructions out there for canning bacon and you usually end up with plenty of grease in the jar. I think some Eastern Europe company even sells canned bacon, Yoder’s Canned Bacon. But yeah, look for “home canned bacon” and you should find something.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=home+canned+bacon&atb=v1-1&iax=images&ia=images
...”crappy little blue gills”
Bluegills are like gold on this end of the swamp but mere fertilizer on yours. Life keeps getting tougher on all fronts.
My friend & co-worker, a Jewish Grandmother of the old school, kindly labels me as a Goyim when we have discussions at this level. She reserves 'heathen' for those of her own who claim the ancestry but not the faith!
I’ve always believed the best outreach to Muslims is to let them taste bacon if they think no one is watching.
And not a bad shaving lotion.
I gotta try that!
the odd bit missing about this story is the wonder of the egg, one of Gods finest creations, is his creation of bacon an accident or divinity?
If you kept pouring bacon grease down the drain, you probably made a call to Roto-Rooter shortly afterwards.
green beans too, but oh yeah...
When my wife was a kid they used to put bacon grease on toast with salt.
Thanks.
I meant the bacon grease.....but, I just found an article saying it lasts indefinitely, in the freezer, if stored right (vacuum sealed?).
Six months in fridge.
and wrap skinless chicken in bacon - omg, moist and yummy.
Ping.
Going to have to try this! Thanks. What kind of steak are you using?
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