How To Get a Bargain For Your Pork

If you are using your home to slaughter a pig you will probably want to select a young female or a castrated male that weigh from 180 to 250 lbs. A much larger pig will have a higher percentage of body weight in fat and be less manageable for home slaughtered. The correct age will depend…

Here is what to know when purchasing a Pig

Here is what  what you get on a pig: You can get chops and bacon from the Neck, Shoulder and Blade bone The back, also, known as ham is what are used for joints of prime roast pork. This can be cut up to make gammon (lower or hind part of a side of bacon) surprising they’re…

Bake Beans For a Busy Hillbilly Cook.

Here is a recipe a busy hillbilly cook can use to make baked beans. Chop a onion, fry about two strips of bacon. add a Tbs. of brown sugar,1/4 cup of ketchup, mustard (about a fourth of the amount of ketchup that is added). Then a can of pork and beans. Mix them all together and include the bacon grease. Cook…

When Making Wilted Lettuce Use Bacon Grease

Among the many delicious things that Hillbilly’s cook from the garden is wilted lettuce My Grandma always made her wilted lettuce fresh from the garden. Now if you are like me and do not have a garden just buy leafy lettuce from the grocery store or the farmers market. Now here is the way to make. wilted lettuce. Chop…