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Cracklin Bread
Cracklings
are pork rinds, fried till they are brown and crisp. Cracklin bread
would
be something like this:
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1 cup yellow cornbread
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1 cup flour
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1 tablespoon sugar
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1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon baking
powder
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1 1/2 cup Milk
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1/4 cup Shortening, melted
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1 egg, beaten
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10 Slices bacon , cooked/crumbled, or
salt
pork, diced and fried till browned
Instructions
Combine
first six ingredients, add milk, shortening, and egg, mixing well. Stir
in bacon. Pour batter into a well greased 8-inch square pan. Bake at
425
degrees for 25 minutes or until lightly browned.
100
years ago, almost every every family kept a pig because...
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Pigs taste
good.
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People used
to say
that you could use every part of a pig but the squeal. From a pig, a
family
could get pork, ham, bacon, sausage, salt pork, pickled pigs feet,
scrapple,
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Pigs grow
faster
and produce more meat in less time than cattle or sheep.
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Pigs were
the garbage
disposal system. They ate up the peelings, the scraps, and the
leftovers
from the garden.
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Besides,
little
pigs are really cute.
Well,
maybe it depends on what you mean by cute.
Want
to learn more about pigs? Here are a few links...
Piggy Facts from the
USDA
Pork
4 Kids Page
Save a Piggy! -
Vegetarian Bacon Recipe
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