Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Random Thought Number Two

The pork's in the freezer, Oho! Oho!
The pork's in the freezer, Oho! Oho!

(To be sung to the tune of "The Campbells are coming").

Our pork has arrived! Shortly before Christmas we discovered that Andy's bus driver raises hogs to sell, so we bought one and just picked it up from the butcher. We have a little over 120 pounds of pork in the freezer! One of the hams isn't ready yet - we're having that sugar-cured and that takes about six weeks. We haven't tried any yet, but pancakes and bacon sounds like a good dinner to me! I had asked for the fat in order to make lard, which I had never done before and wanted to try, but it turns out that the pork was so lean that any fat that was on it was put into making the sausage. We had borrowed a lard press from Jerry's uncle who used to live on a farm, but I guess we won't get to try that out. Jerry was looking forward to the cracklings that form in one big cake at the bottom of the press. Oh well, guess he'll just have to keep his cholesterol at a normal level a little longer!

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