Salt Pork Breakfast

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cold-Smoking & Salt-Curing Meat, Fish, & Game

By A D Livingston

Published 2010

  • About

These days we are constantly told that animal fat is not good for us. If you tend to eat too much of a good thing and have no self-control, or if you are under a doctor’s orders, proceed at your peril.

Ingredients

  • salt pork with lean streaks
  • cornmeal
  • oil
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Method

Slice the salt pork to about ⅛ inch thick and cut off the rind. Allow at least 4 slices per person. Put the slices into a pan and cover them with water. Bring to a quick boil, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes. Drain the salt pork and discard the water. Heat about ⅛ inch of oil in a skillet. Coat the salt pork with cornmeal and fry it in hot fat until brown and crispy. Put the salt pork pieces o