EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Never had anything else. Never heard of cooking oil or shortening. Used lard or grease from frying sausage or bacon.

SGM B Loc: TEXAS but live in Alabama now

My granny fried fresh k**led chicken in lard - best chicken I ever ate in my entire life, I was 6 years old.
😂😂😂🇺🇸

Tug484

Mine too.
So good.

teabag09

Actually lard is better for you than butter, crisco or oleo. It's rendered pig fat tht has ALL of meat scraps filtered out of it. It doesn't need refrigerated. Back in the day it was left in a can by the stove. Mike

SGM B Loc: TEXAS but live in Alabama now

True that and my Granny used to buy it in 5gl cans. 😄

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

We rendered our own lard. Big cast iron kettle over outside fire. After hog butchering, all the fat was trimmed off the hams, shoulders, loins and cooked in the pot until the lard was cooked out.

Since we had no refrigeration, there was no way to keep any of the hog except the hams, bacon and shoulders which were smoked so loins were sliced and fried and canned in Mason jars as was the sausage was made, fried and canned.
Apples were either dried or stewed and canned in jars as were blackberries, dewberries, cherries and all this was done with no heat source other than firewood in the kitchen range. and no indoor plumbing. Water was carried in buckets from the spring.
Laundry was done by the spring with water heated in the big kettle that was used for the lard rendering. We got really modern and my uncle purchased a used Maytag engine powered washing machine. Wow, man, we were something! No more wash boards.

Actually the intestines were also picked of fat and it was cooked separately. These were the chitlin's, we munched on.
Actually, we only bought coffee, and 1 loaf of bread so we had 'white' bread for Sunday lunch otherwise biscuits at breakfast and cornbread for lunch(dinner) and supper. Traded a bag of wheat for flour and bran. Got the cornmeal from the same mill as the flour.

I remember my school showing a movie back during the war. The price of admission was a flattened can used for food. We didn't have a can on the site so had to scrounge along the road to find a can to take to get in the movie. It was a scrap drive thing during WWII.
Good old days??? I'm not too sure about that.
Time frame for this that I remember, 1937 to 1947. We did get electricity during WWII.

teabag09

Sir, i totally respect you and your family, GOD BLESS you and when it's your time to be pleased meet your creator, may it be peaceafully meeting for you. Mike

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Thank you, kind sir. And you also.

teabag09

Bacon grease which isn't really real lard will keep in the open forever. Lard, even lomger as it's more pure. Mike

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Please tell me the source of 'lard'. We trimmed the fat from all the parts of the hog and rendered it all together. Bacon was smoked and occasionally prepared for breakfast and the grease (lard) was used for cooking the eggs.
After reading your reply, went in and found this bit of info. Quote: "Lard is a semi-solid white fat product obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the pig. It is distinguished from tallow, a similar product derived from fat of cattle or sheep. Lard can be rendered by steaming, boiling, or dry heat." What else can I say. Hog fat rendered is lard no matter which end of the hog it comes from.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Very interesting.....your family had to work and you survived without:
An Obama phone
Food Stamps
Internet
Cellphone
Facebook
Twitter
etc

You relied on hard work and common sense
These are the kind of people who will survive the next world wide cat-tas-tro-phy. the h****rs & gathers of the world will restart humanity.....as they have in the past. In the past .....advanced civilization have disappeared due to world wide destruction from comets, (never thought my Ford Comet kud be that dangerous)
asteroids, nuclear winter??? and those who survived and restarted "humanity" were h****r gathers with common sense who knew how to use their natural resources.. People dependent on their cellphones and social networking will be screwed and will starve to death.

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Had to chuckle!! My guardian used to brag on me because I kept my shoes so nice I could wear them to school for two years!! Imagine that!

Big Dolly

As I mentioned in an earlier post, heavy fats upset my stomach, so I eat almost no fried food at all. Besides, I'm also on medication for hypothyroidism or underactive thyroid gland. One of its side effects is diarrhea. A little too much fat, oil or grease of any kind will aggravate that side effect, which means that not everyone can or should eat certain kinds of food. Once in a while, I have olive oil on salad or use a little bit of vegetable oil when making sunny side up or scrambled eggs.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

They used to sell cocaine in medicines. I used to sneak a swig of Vicks Formula 44 Cough Syrup with codine. That stuff was good and had a kind of rootbeer flavor. If it had cocaine I may have turned into a child junkie. They also sold paragar for teething babies. It got removed from the market too because of what was in the formula. Moms were overdoing the stuff to put fussy babies to sleep. It worked, it knocked my sister right out, several times when she was teething.

I started changing diapers when dad started his second family. Think I was seven. Three kids, I got pretty good. Only drew blood a few times with those not so safe, safety pins. Diapers made the best rags to clean anything with. For a while we had and endless supply of them. Every other day was wash day. If I wasn't washing and changing diapers, I was washing the car, or the dog, or a horse. Dang, I just figured out why little girls never liked me. I must have smelled like a cough syrup addict, crap and sweat all the time. Another mystery solved. Must have worked I didn't get my first kiss until I was sixteen.

She was a cutie and a pretty good cowgirl too. She lived forty miles away and with one car, dad ended that pretty quick. That's when I started catching on to his minds games he liked to play. I did most of the work and he kept my money safe for me. Finally I had to buy a billfold so I could keep a little of the money I was making. If I made 150.00 I said I made 100.00. He caught on to that pretty fast for an old guy 17 years older than me. But he could add numbers in his head faster than someone fast with a calculator. Then he would say buy my some cigarettes if he knew I had enough money. He was hard to beat. I finally figured out he was going through my wallet when I was in the shower. I had to buy another wallet and keep it in my sock.
I only kept 5 to 15 dollars in my back pocket wallet.

Tug484

My mom used lard.
I don't think I could eat anything fried in it anymore.
I remember the big black kettle.
They made lye soap in it.
I don't know what the lye soap was used on.
Every fruit and vegetable got canned and they were so good.
I never cared for the home canned version of bread and butter pickles, but I'd love to have my grandmothers chow chow recipe.