SC - lard press?

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

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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