SC - Catching & Cooking carp

[Jeff Botkins]

I too have one of those very same presses, tho i don't currently posses the
strainer.....
can't say as I've needed it....but i know what to do with it now, if I do..<gg>

Jeff

Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/21/98 11:40:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> a14h at zebra.net writes:
>
> >
> >  > What is a lard press used for?
> >  >
> and then wajdi said
> >>Pressing lard??<<
>
> Yes, you have to have a grease proof ironing board, though.
>
> A lard press is used to press the hot liquid lard from the bits of skin and
> fat tissue.  You cook the fatty parts of the animal (hog, sheep, whatever)
> until the bits float in the grease, then strain it, then take the solid bits
> and put them in a press and squeeze the lard out of them.
>
> Our lard press was a cast iron cylinder, about 10" in diameter, with a coarse
> seive in the bottom, and a spout on the bottom.  It had a wheel press on the
> top that swung to one side to load it, then you turned the wheel to press the
> lard out.  To convert it to a sausage press, you removed the seive and added
> an extension to the spout.
>
> Mordonna
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