ngian
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After Susie's prompt for trying a recipe with lard, I started looking for butchers that can give me some. I found out that my local butcher can give me and he already did, but it is only back-fat.
I also called another butcher boutique that has its own Certified Organic Farm, and they might be able to give me leaf lard to render. I will know this the next days.
So I will show here my ever first attempt to make Susie's recipe, starting from the rendering of lard.
Firstly I cut any meat and skin that is left on the fat so as to have pure fat, and afterwards I start cutting in small pieces and then putting it in the fridge:
This pure fat was a total of 750gr and hoping that when I melt it (in the following messages) I will have at least ~350gr so I as I can cook one normal (~8 soap bars) batch of soap (I do CPOP, but I like saying "cook" as I'm influenced by Breaking Bad ! ).
I'm thinking of having this thread to show all the way from scratch to make a soap bar with lard, so as anyone can ask or give feedback in every step until the final product.
In this thread I will also show my attempt with leaf fat (or suet fat, or as we locally call it royal fat), if I have the luck to obtain some.
Nikos
I also called another butcher boutique that has its own Certified Organic Farm, and they might be able to give me leaf lard to render. I will know this the next days.
So I will show here my ever first attempt to make Susie's recipe, starting from the rendering of lard.
Firstly I cut any meat and skin that is left on the fat so as to have pure fat, and afterwards I start cutting in small pieces and then putting it in the fridge:
This pure fat was a total of 750gr and hoping that when I melt it (in the following messages) I will have at least ~350gr so I as I can cook one normal (~8 soap bars) batch of soap (I do CPOP, but I like saying "cook" as I'm influenced by Breaking Bad ! ).
I'm thinking of having this thread to show all the way from scratch to make a soap bar with lard, so as anyone can ask or give feedback in every step until the final product.
In this thread I will also show my attempt with leaf fat (or suet fat, or as we locally call it royal fat), if I have the luck to obtain some.
Nikos
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