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Lardons may be prepared from different cuts of pork, including pork belly and fatback, or from cured cuts such as bacon [3] or salt pork.According to food writer Regina Schrambling, when the lardon is salt-cured but not smoked in the style of American bacon, "the flavor comes through cleanly, more like ham but richer because the meat is from the belly of the pig, not the leg". [4]
Vegetable shortenings were developed in the early 1900s, which made it possible to use vegetable-based fats in baking and in other uses where solid fats were called for. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, though fictional, portrayed men falling into rendering vats and being sold as lard, which generated negative publicity.
A lardon, also spelled lardoon, is a small strip or cube of fatty bacon, or pork fat (usually subcutaneous fat), used in a wide variety of cuisines to flavor savory food and salads. In French cuisine , lardons are also used for larding, by threading them with a needle into meats that are to be braised or roasted.
Salt pork is made by layering salt and thin layers of meat, then dousing it in a brine mixture once the desired size has been reached. [ 3 ] Along with hardtack and corned beef , salt pork was a standard ration for many militaries and navies throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, seeing usage in the American Civil War , War of 1812 ...
The most famous lardo is from the Tuscan frazione (hamlet) of Colonnata, where lardo has been made since Roman times. Colonnata is a frazione of the larger city of Carrara, which is famous for its marble; Colonnata is itself a site where Carrara marble is quarried and, traditionally, lardo is cured for months in basins made of this marble.
The CBPP said the U.S. has made treaties with tribes since the 1700s, promising to provide Indigenous people with rations, giving them food like lard, wheat and flour, which were often unhealthy.
The "normal" U.S. bacon is made from pork belly instead and called streaky bacon there. [3] In Ireland, this is known as a rasher. In addition, streaky bacon is the name given to U.S. bacon, generally side bacon. Both back bacon and side bacon are colloquially known as rashers. [citation needed]
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