Had some fun with a knife

[1STGENFARMBOY]

Our new years eve tradition, butchered 5 hogs this weekend, the last 3 were 375lbs.

lots of fun with my family, and some good (MEAT)........mmmmmmmmm...meat.

Dar







ain't these beautiful boneless chops, mmmmmmmmmmm



how about these sides of bacon and hams, in the salt box.





lard..the padle i'm using is over 90 years old.



and the lard press.

[swank]

mmmmmmmmm........pig

[ellis93]

I've killed and skinned lots of critters but I've never boiled any fat off of a hog,what is the intended purpose of that? Excuse my ignorance

[1STGENFARMBOY]

Just think of it as the crisco of days gone by, but it tasts soooooooo much better, then after you run it through the
press what you have left is a gift from GOD, known as cracklens ( pig fat chips) mmmmmmmm-mmmmm.

Dar

[ellis93]

Ahhhh,ok. Fryin up some chicken later then

[CAJUN 93]

thats called a boucherie down in my parts. lots of fun and lots of work. multiple families participate and everyone brings stuff home for the freezer. add some coonass music in the background and ya'll could be down here. aint been cold enough down here yet. usually late jan or feb before we can do it.

ellis, you render the lard to get all the impurities out of it then let it solidify and use it for the rest of the year. aint nothing that makes bisquits and pie crust like home rendered lard . fries chicken well too.

daryl

[1STGENFARMBOY]

We made some kettle corn in the left overs, i don't even need to say this but i have eaten so
much today i feel kinda sick......

Ellis it works good for chicken, pie crust, or anything els you can think of, my grandma was there
and she said she used to take a bisket to school with just lard smeared in the middle, ........
.......aaa yeah i would like a lard sandwich and 2 heart atacks to go please,

Dar

[1STGENFARMBOY]

Daryl you can bet your southern fried a$$ there was banjo music goin all day.

Dar

[ellis93]

ellis, you render the lard to get all the impurities out of it then let it solidify and use it for the rest of the year. aint nothing that makes bisquits and pie crust like home rendered lard . fries chicken well too.

daryl

I recall people saying something about it but I've never seen it done. The old ways are dieing out slowly.

Banjo music makes my but pucker I'm just poking at yall.

[CAJUN 93]

thats one of my favorite weekends of the year. all the family comes together and we have a ball. its good to show folks that meat is more than those little plastic containers in the meat section at the supermarket. teaches the youngsters what a hard days work can give you. glad to see ya'll having fun and enjoying the results of your labor.

happy new year
daryl

[CAJUN 93]

i'm definitly more partial to a squeezebox and cajun fiddle.

[dazedandconfused]

The last time I skined a hog was our last hog roast. I remember laughing at my cousin (30 years old at the time) because he was dry heaving and gagging the whole time. He had a pet pig the year before and we kept telling him it was the one we just killed.

[1STGENFARMBOY]

I have been involved is some killings where everything and i mean everything was used, the feet,heads (head cheese), toung,
blood ( blood pudding), the only thing that got away was the squeel, this was at my bro-enlaws home place (GERMANS), that was the first time
i had been involved in a double didgit butcherin,(12) talk about a long day.

It is for shure a dying art, some of the guys at the table are extreemly knologable it the art of butchery, it a joy to stand beside them
and learn some history.

here is a little of what we ate for the day, 5:30am biskets/white sauge gravy, 8:30am break and fresh tenderloin on an open fire, 12:30pm
white beans/fresh ham, cornbread, cooked in a cast iron kettle on the fire, 2:00pm first round of cracklens, and apple pie, 6:00pm second
round of cracklens, then followed by kettle corn and an ice cold coke.

did i mention i ate toooooooo much.

Dar

[cmann250]

Very much agreed that this is a dying art. Few kids in my generation have processed most ordinary barn yard critters and several species of wild game as i have. Beef is my favorite, fresh burgers and cube steaks (fried in beef fat) MMMMMMMMMMM sooooo good

[The_Head]

I bet it's a helluva lot cheaper than getting the meat at the store. Pork here used to be pretty cheap, now it's getting near beef prices. I'd like to buy half a beef cow for the family, but my wife gave away her freezer a couple years ago.