Random Comments (RH)

[The Troll]

I didn't have to carry out the jar or carry in the coal but we had one coal stove in the living room to heat the entire house.  I remember mom threw a bag of stale cracklin's in the stove once.  Boy did it ever get hot....Needless to say she never did that again. 

  I remember my dad helped a farmer for several years kill, dip in boiling water to take off the hair and butcher several hogs a year.  He would get some meat and lard.  Lard in a big lard can.  They raised really fat hogs back then, for the lard.  Everything was cook, baked in lard.     Oh, remember how they would come around and pick up the lard dripping for the World II effort.     Everybody was in the war back then, cause we had to win. 

  Then the cracklins.  How they would take the skin and fat and throw them in this big cast iron kettle.  Watching them turn a golden brown.  Taking out and put in the lard  press and the lard  pressed out.  Dad would get these large round cakes of cracklins.  Oh how good they were.  Uncle Josh cracklins are the closes thing that you can buy that comes to tasting like the ones dad would get.  The good old days when you butcher your own food.   

  It's been years since I have ate anything cooked in lard.  I wonder how it would taste now.   

[me]

Not sure you can even buy lard now. I know it sure made a good pie crust.  Crisco is decent to do pie crust but not near as good as lard used to be. 

Last time I went to the Perkinsville festival they had someone making cracklins in a huge cast iron caldron.  They were goooood.   

[The Troll]

  You can buy lard at Mejiers in Noblesville, probably got it in Anderson.  Happy baking.   

[me]

  You can buy lard at Mejiers in Noblesville, probably got it in Anderson.  Happy baking.   

I'll have to check that out.  Lard crust for rhubarb pie.... 

[Sandy Eggo]

  You can buy lard at Mejiers in Noblesville, probably got it in Anderson.  Happy baking.   

Mom used lard for her pie crusts also. They were always flaky and delicious!

[Palehorse]

Lard: The semi-trucks of your circulatory system! 

[The Troll]

Lard: The semi-trucks of your circulatory system! 

  If lard don't get you, Radon or second hand tobacco smoke will. 

[Palehorse]

  If lard don't get you, Radon or second hand tobacco smoke will. 

Like quadruple bypass surgery, high blood pressure, or a stroke. Each proven to be directly caused by a diet high in saturated fats and sedentary lifestyle.

[libby]

Mom used lard for her pie crusts also. They were always flaky and delicious!

My mother did the same. My favorite was her fried apple pies.  And yes, there's no substitute that does as well as lard.

My father kept two pigs, which he killed and then prepared. He and my mother used to make sausage and then can in the big glass jars. Our pigs were fed corn, something called chop (sp) and any dinner leftovers. They also had plenty of room in the sty to roam; I remember them as being lean, and the meat was wonderful. The bacon was nothing like what we see in grocery stores today. We called it streek-ed bacon and the fat was more chewey than fatty.

[The Troll]

Like quadruple bypass surgery, high blood pressure, or a stroke. Each proven to be directly caused by a diet high in saturated fats and sedentary lifestyle.

  Com'on Horse, you say you wouldn't eat a piece of "ME's rhubarb pie with a lard made crust. 

  I'll bet that a warm rhubard pie left of your kitchen table wouldn't last to long, even if you ate enough you might die of high blood pressure.      And don't blame it on the pup.   

[damfast]

I am going back to college.  I went once.  This time i am gonna park in there.....last time i just went.

[damfast]

oh yeah, bring on the pie.  i like pie
and cake
and candy bars
they dont let me have pie here

[Palehorse]

I refuse to go bungee jumping. I came into this world because of a broken rubber, I'm not leaving because of one....

[libby]

oh yeah, bring on the pie.  i like pie
and cake
and candy bars
they dont let me have pie here

[/quote] Talking about pie made me think of the old movie, Michael, starring John Travolta. In it Andie McDowell plays a reporter who writes country songs, one of the best being about pie. She went with two others to investigate reports of an honest-to-goodness angel somewhere in the midwest.  The subject of pie came up when she sang, in her North Carolina accent: "Pie, Pie, I love Pie." That was in the roadhouse scene where Michael (Travolta), the avenging angel, was dancing with the ladies. It was a great movie. I bought a copy even though I resisted seeing the movie because I couldn't stand John Travolta.

[Henry Hawk]