That should say "in the form of margarine". Sorry.
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> What do you do with it?
>
> When I was a kid, my mom had a old jar that she used for it. Usually a
> Marshmallow Crème jar. When it was full she would throw it out. She was
> never one to use bacon fat for anything. Oddly enough she would cook the
> meat to death, drain and blot all of the fat off and then add fat back in,
> in for form of margarine. No telling how she got that idea. I don't do
> that. But I also don't like fatty meat.
>
> And these days I seem to be getting fatty meat! I did look at Costco and
> they seem to only sell one kind of organic and it is fattier than I would
> want for most things. So I bought about a 5 pound package of their ground
> meat. Again they have only one kind and again it seems fattier than it
> used to be. I can't say for sure what percentage it used to be but I have
> bought it before and I don't remember all the fat in it. I cooked the
> whole package last night and filled a 14 oz. green bean can with all of
> the fat that came from it! I don't have any empty jars except for canning
> jars and I don't want to waste one of those!
>
> I let the fat cool overnight and set up. Then I put the can in a used
> zippered plastic bag and then in another used zippered plastic bag for
> good measure. I will throw it out.
>
> Looks like I am going to have to go back to buying the very expensive
> organic beef at Central Market. It is very lean.
>