fatback
Swine's dorsal layer
Fatback is a layer of fat from a pig's back, used in Southern American cooking to season vegetables, beans, and greens.
Unlike bacon, it comes from higher on the animal and contains little or no meat.
It's typically salt-cured and sliced thin, then rendered to flavor dishes: She added a piece of fatback to the collard greens.
Crispy fried pork skin
Dense North American hardwood
- smokehouseStructure for preserving with fumes
- mesquiteThorny desert legume
- curedRestored to health
- barbecueSlow-cook over coals
smoked · woodsy · charcoal · grill · campfire · curing · aroma · applewood
Substance improving food taste
- flavoringSubstance adding taste
- greaseThick oily lubricant
- cookingPreparing food with heat
- renderedDepicted or processed
soul-food · beans · cornbread · potlikker · drippings · shortening · frying · braising
Maintaining something's condition
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- larderCool food storage room
pantry · antebellum · colonial · pioneer · old-fashioned · provisions · subsistence · farmstead
lard
Clarified pork fat
rind · backfat · cracklings · chicharron · rendered · suet · tallow · sow · boar · butchery
cracklings
Crispy fried pork skin
rendered · brittle · crackly · golden · sizzling · pan-fried
hickory
Dense North American hardwood
- smokehouseStructure for preserving with fumes
- mesquiteThorny desert legume
- curedRestored to health
barbecue · smoked · woodsy · charcoal · grill · campfire · curing · aroma · applewood · oak-smoked
seasoning
Substance improving food taste
rendered · soul-food · beans · cornbread · potlikker · drippings · shortening · frying · braising · simmering
preservation
Maintaining something's condition
larder · pantry · antebellum · colonial · pioneer · old-fashioned · provisions · subsistence · farmstead · country
- cured meatsbacon, ham steak, pancetta, prosciutto, salami
- Fatlard, blubber, suet, tallow, adipose
- Porkbacon, ham, pork chop, pork loin, pork tenderloin
- Southern Foodfried chicken, collards, biscuits, grits, cornbread
- Southern friedfried chicken, fried catfish, fried okra, fried green tomatoes, hush puppies
- animal fatslard, tallow, suet, schmaltz, ghee
fatbacklean meat
Flesh with little fat
pork loin · tenderloin · sirloin · pork tenderloin · loin
fatbackpork belly
Fatty porcine underside cut
bacon · pork loin · ham · pork shoulder · spare ribs