SC - Pigs is not Necessarily Pigs

[Daniel Phelps]

Was written:

>Oil used in deep frying can be (and still is) recycled and used
>repeatedly. Pork was a rather popular meat among those who could afford it
>Anyone have any stat on how much lard you get off of one pig if it hasn't
>been raised in the modern fashion, on kitchen scraps?


Somewhere around my apartment I have a book titled "Rare Breeds".   It has
lots of pictures of currenty rare livestock breeds.  It shows at least one
breed of swine that was formerly raised in Europe as a "lard pig".   Don't
know if the breed was period but it does point up the fact that there was at
some point sucessful selection for lard production rather than strictly for
meat.

Daniel Raoul