Many people love lard, consider it both tasty and healthy product. Almost every lard lover owns his own way of salting or smoking it. When you buy a lot of lard, the question immediately arises: how can you save it so that you can feast on it for a long time?
It is necessary
lard, salt, spices
Instructions
Step 1
The most famous and common way to preserve lard is, of course, salting. There are a huge number of salting recipes. The main thing is to prepare a good brine. Take an enamel dish and prepare a brine in it with the calculation of 1 kg. salt per 1 liter of water. Put the pan on the fire, add onion skins and spices (to your taste). Then reduce the heat and put the lard, cut into pieces, there. Cook for two hours; after the allotted time, remove the pieces. Let them cool down. Then rub with garlic, add a little salt and wrap in a towel. Leave overnight directly on the table, it should lie for a while at room temperature. Only the next day, put in the refrigerator. And now you can store it for more than six months.
Step 2
You can save the fat by salting and without making the brine. Just cut it in thin layers and rub it well with salt and pepper. You can use any herb, depending on your taste. Dill will be good here, but you can also take hops-suneli. Make small cuts and stick the cloves of garlic into them. This will add spice to the lard. Lay it in layers in an enamel saucepan and place it on the lower shelf in the refrigerator for 4-5 days. Then you can store the salted bacon in cling film in the refrigerator for about a year. It will be just as delicious.
Step 3
If you have a lot of lard to store, melt it. This method will allow you to preserve the product even longer than with salting, namely, about three years. Cut the lard into small pieces, put in a saucepan and heat over low heat. The fat will be released gradually. It needs to be drained and filtered. Then pour it into pre-prepared jars. After cooling, put in the refrigerator. This bacon is useful for preparing delicious dishes and for medicinal purposes for rubbing.
Step 4
If you want to preserve the bacon by smoking it, then you need a smokehouse. And not all kinds of firewood are suitable for her. It gives a good taste and smell to the smoke from alder or willow wood. Before smoking lard, it must be salted and kept in the refrigerator for a couple of days. And only then put it on special hooks in the smokehouse and smoke for about three hours. You also need to store such bacon in a cool place.
