Do you save your bacon fat?

MorelCabin

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I use it in salad dressings...especially ceasar salad...I also use it in pasta. Stir fry veggies, add cooked pasta and bacon grease...yummmm! I pour it in with the dog food as a treat during winter.
 

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MorelCabin said:
I use it in salad dressings...especially ceasar salad...I also use it in pasta. Stir fry veggies, add cooked pasta and bacon grease...yummmm! I pour it in with the dog food as a treat during winter.
Ooohhh,, explain how you use it in caesar salad dressing please?? Sound yummy.
 

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We make a ceasar salad dressing with egg yolk, oil/bacon fat, red wine vinegar, worchestersire sauce and just use the bacon fat as part of the oil. I don't have the actual recipe...it is my hubby's concoction...but you should be able to use it in your recipe by just mixing it in with the oil part of the dressing
 

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I use it to start bean-y soups if it's around... saute the onions and carrots and whatever in the bacon fat, then add everything else and make soup.
 

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miss_thenorth said:
Ewww!! How long did that take? Curious--b/c mins bn in there for a few months. I just added to it yesterday.
I think probably about 2-3 months. Yuck!
 

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yes I save for the dogs---well when I had the dogs :(

do not cook with bacon grease. Don't know why, just don't.

Only time I use bacon is to eat it plain, or put it in baked beans. No other bacon uses really.

Now I put in a jar I have and when full I toss. Also don't make it often.
 

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I know alot of people think it's disgusting, but I've always saved mine in a teacup in the fridge. My grandmother used it for lots of things, and I do as well....below are some of those things...

1. I use a tablespoon to make breakfast gravy when I don't have any meat.
2. It's great in green beans and soup beans both.
 

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I;d suggest saving it in small containers, not big jars, b/c it starts to go rancid after a few months. Small containers allows 'inventory rotation' so to speak. I use custard cups. Dont' even cover them - I figure why? it's solid and not inclined to go bad.

I use little dabs of it fairly frequently in cooking. Yum :) It's not for those who're watching their salt intake tho :p

I would be cautious trying to use it in bread. Yeast is pretty salt-sensitive. At the very least, you'd want to cut down (or out?) the salt in the recipe if you used bacon grease. Might taste good in, like, chili-cheese bread or something like that, tho.

JMO,

Pat
 

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Yes, I save it. I use it for mainly frying breakfast stuff. You all have great ideas. Thanks for sharring.

Oh my favorite, Wilted Spinach Salad. Or at least the dressing.:D
 

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i save mine in the freezer. I love it on fried beans or cabbage and fried eggs. I have a story about bacon grease, when i was a kid me and my brothers and daddy were out in the creek wading and getting river rocks for a patio, well we herd the dog go to hollering and running and saw a cotton mouth beside where she was and the snake had bitten her on the snout and she swole up fast. we took her home and daddy force fed her a cooking of bacon lard and the next day she was back to normal. she only had 2 hard lumps where the fangs hit her snout bone. daddy said it neutralizes the poison in the bite and made her throw up alot. so i guess its good to keep around just in case you have an animal get bit by a snake.
 

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