If you pride yourself on doing most of your grocery shopping in your backyard (“Tomatoes? Check. Eggs? Check. Berries? Check.”), you may be interested in learning how to make cooking oils and render ...

My freezer is full of beef fat and I finally rendered tallow for cooking oil. We raise some pastured beef for our family, and while we enjoy the grass-fed beef, we have been slower to learn the art of ...

I had a Pie Class to teach, and my go-to not-so-secret ingredient, Lard (which I get mail order) was in short supply. What to do? I am a believer in using more than one fat in the dough. Using only ...

Rendering lard in a Crock-Pot is SO easy! You just need to cut up the fat into small pieces, put the fat into a slow cooker, turn it on low, and check on it occasionally to stir! Congress clinches ...

With butter consumption at a 40-year high, it seems that home cooks are ready to embrace animal fats once more — and yet lard remains almost universally reviled. I can promise you, though, that it ...

You can use lard to cook eggs, meat and vegetables, especially potatoes. I made some sweet potato fries with this lard and they were really tasty, not greasy at all. If you have rendered leaf lard, ...