Description

Looking for an alternative to vegetable oils or dairy for cooking or baking? Why not try some true free range Poaka pork lard and add some real flavour back into your cooking. Pork Lard was the main source of cooking oil or fat throughout history, right up until 50 or 60 years ago before the introduction of cheap seed oils (otherwise known as “vegetable oils”, have you ever seen oil come out of a vegetable?). Cheap vegetable oils were heavily marketed and misinformation/smear campaigns resulted in Pork lard being labeled “unhealthy” in order to promote their cheap seed oils that were previously a waste product. Read this great article on lard which explains more and how to render your free range pork fat down. Draw your own conclusions! At Poaka we strive to provide the highest quality, local, sustainable, true free range organically farmed Pork products.

The gold standard of lard, leaf lard comes from the comes from the visceral, or soft, fat from around the kidneys and loin of our free range pigs. We organically, free range farm all of our pigs, our fat is of exceptional quality and of the highest purity. Our Free range pigs have been able to forage on a variety of grasses, acorns, sweet chestnuts and many other good things out on the farm. As a result our pigs have fat that contains high levels of Omega-3 fatty acids and other micronutrients.

Poaka lard renders down into a beautiful product perfect for cooking and backing. Use lard in any situation where dairy or vegetable fat/oil is called for.

Vacuum packed in 1kg bags and sent out fresh frozen. Minced to make rendering faster and easier. Requires rendering at low temperature to make lard.