Fresh pork fat for rendering into leaf lard.
The healthiest high heat cooking fat you can find. This is the fat surrounding the kidneys of the pig. Filled with vitamin D from the pigs life in the sunshine of our PNW forest. One tablespoon of lard contains 1,000 IU’s of vitamin D!
For more information about rendering, check out this blog post written about it. Including the entire, very simple recipe. Making your own health filled cooking oil has never been so easy!
Approximately 2.2-2.8 pounds of leaf lard fat. Yields 1-1.5 quarts of rendered lard when properly made.