Monday, November 25, 2013

I'm thrilled with my fat

Two days ago a friend gave me 30lbs of fat.  Everyone should have such a generous friend.  I didn't even know I needed it, but clearly, he thought I could use a few pounds. 
This is the tallow after I rendered it.  From 30 lbs of beef fat I got more than 2 1/2 gallons of tallow.  I'll use it for cooking and soap making.  His beef are raised on grass so the tallow has many healthy benefits.  See http://www.minkysfriedchickendiet.com/Healthy-Beef-Tallow.html

He also gave me some homemade scrapple which was delicious.  Growing up in PA, I was familiar with scrapple but thought I didn't like it.  Mostly it was my mom who ate it.
Last night's dinner was scrapple and potatoes, both fried in tallow with a healthy dose of ketchup, as fried potatoes and scrapple should be served with.

Today I'm wearing sweatpants and no one has told me I needed a few more lbs of fat.

2 comments:

  1. Very funny. I'm from Maryland and we grew up eating a lot of scrapple as well. We used to put maple syrup on it, however. But I think my son would be happy with ketchup on it in a pinch.

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  2. Now that you mention it, I think I remember my mom putting maple syrup on it too, or maybe it was served with pancakes.

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