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Default the benefits of proper lard

On 2019-03-24 9:42 a.m., cshenk wrote:
> A Moose in Love wrote:


>> the sobey's store here has duck fat for sale. never bought any. the
>> old folks used to take a piece of rye bread and spread some duck or
>> goose fat on it along with raw garlic and hot real hot peppers.
>> ouch. not for me though.

>
> Here we can get it too (not common though). I cook up a duck every 6-8
> weeks here and save the fat for cooking other things. Just about to
> make another one as I used up the last of it.



I will have to buy some. I have sworn off cooking ducks because even the
best I have done weren't very good, and most of them turned out really
badly. I gave up years ago. A couple years ago I relented and tried
another, and it was a failure.