Скачать или смотреть Polish Smalec - a bacon spread you can make at home [appetizer]

Poor Man's Butter as Smalec is also know. A more modern name is bacon butter or spead.


Smalec is often served gratis when you sit down in a Polish restaurant, like a basket of bread or chips and salsa.



It's also the sort of thing that goes well with beer, vodka, and deep thoughts when friends are talking late into the night.



It's easy to make at home. The challenge is finding enough pork fat. I've found that specialty butcher stores sell blocks of port fat, or the butcher department in your supermarket will often offer to save it for you. It may take a week or so for them to collect enough for this recipe, but how nice that it isn't being wasted. Poles have been into nose to tail cooking since Poland began.



Smalec freezes well. I put it in little ramekins and wrap in foil. When someone is coming over, I pull a ramekin out of the freezer, add some nice bread and little dill pickles and my very authentic Polish appetizer is ready to go.



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