Has anyone else out there ever had cracklin' bread? Or know what crackling is?
A couple weeks ago Thomas told me he'd enjoy having some cracklin' bread if he knew where to get some crackling. Last week before we left town, Eler Beth and I actually found crackling in a little grocery near our house. We weren't looking for it; I was actually looking at hams when the package of crackling caught my eye.
Thomas' father always killed a hog every winter, and if you were raised on a farm you will know that all of a hog is consumed except the oink! Well crackling is the rind or skin. (Think packaged pork rinds without the air.) You cut the rind into small pieces or strips and cook it. I assume they boiled them first and then perhaps they baked or fried them. I really don't know.
I didn't grow up on a farm, although my parents did. We did live in the country, have gardens, and horses, and goats, and etc., but we didn't raise cattle or hogs. But I can remember one time Daddy bought a hog and had it butchered, and I remember how wonderful the fresh bacon and hams tasted. And I can remember cracklin' bread. Like I said, I don't remember exactly how Mom prepared the crackling, except I think I remember her baking it for a while. The cracklings were hard and crunchy, but it was fun to eat them, crunch and all. Then she made corn bread, using her usual recipe, stirred some of the cooked crackling in it, baked the bread, and voila! Cracklin' bread!
So yesterday I made a big pot of green beans with new potatoes and ham, and a pan of cracklin' bread! Sooo delicious!!! I just used my usual corn bread recipe that I usually use, but I was curious as to what I could find online, and I found these -various - recipes - for cracklin' - bread. Some of them are simple, and some much more involved. I don't use a mix for my cornbread, but make it from scratch, using both white and yellow meal. I don't see any reason to fool with a good thing and go changing recipes, but I thought they were interesting. Anyone else out there ever made cracklin' bread?
17 comments:
Hi Lori! I can't beleive you brought up cracklin bread..LOL. I LOVE IT!!! I started out just eating good ole cracklins. i love it.. But the bread is awesome too. i have only known 3 other folks that love it and they are my mom and my granma and my great granma. It has been in the family for years! the recipe that is.
Glad you stopped by my journal, I was glad to hear from you! Take care dear, Lori
Crackln Bread sounds yummy. Loved catching up on your walks and Eler Beth's bike riding company, Life happenings and mammograms, your pity party and such. Yes...I am playing catch up! I did that thing where you come up with a funny phrase...I'm going to copy it to my journal for some fun!
Hugs,
Gina
when I was young my mama and daddy always killed a hog and mama made cracklins'. I didn't pay attention to how she did it. I didn't have to. I was lucky to just be abe to be a kid. I don't remember her making cracklin' bread but I would almost bet she did at some time. Strange you should mention this today as I was just resting a while ago and started thinking of my mama. Paula
Never tried it or even heard of it. I'd love to try it though. Wanna invite me over for dinner?
Martha :-)
I've never had cracklin' bread. At first I thought you were talking about chitlins... but then I read your description of cracklin... sounds good. I tried pork rinds once, thought they were tasty. But I didn't know they were from the skin of the pig... I was thinking they were from the fat... so I never ate them again. Anyway, when I was in college (1974), two girls, one was my roommate at the time were in the dorm kitchen cooking up a pot of something. It stunk bad to me. I asked them what they were cooking, and my roommate said chitlins. She saw the inquisitive and ignorant look on my face and explained that chitlins was the intestine of the hog... and I thought, "what?".... and they were boiling it. I suppose the correct thing to do would have been to accept their invitation to try some, but the smell turned me away, and I politely declined. They laughed gently as I left the room... I got the feeling they had seen my reaction before many times on others. So I can't verify the taste of chitlins, but honestly, I just can't say I'd like to try them. As for cracklin', there is a possibility. Where do the names of these foods come from? cracklin' and chitlins? Interesting entry, Lori. bea
Know cracklings well - so do my arteries! Love em though! Have a happy one! Love your reads!
Katie
I have heard of it, but never tried. We had cornbread or biscuits alot for supper when I was a child.
ive had cracklings but never the bread yummmmm i use to eat them like they were candy when i was a little girl....for you to know all about that u must be from the old school and a country girl like me wooo hooo
I've never tasted cracklin' bread but I so love the crackling off a pork joint when I roast it.. I cinderised the last load of crackling I was making when I forgot to remember that I had left it in the oven after I had taken it off the joint to make it really crispy. I was sooooo looking forward to crunching it too. Adding it to bread making sounds wonderful. Jeanie
No...I've never heard of it before. :o) I don't like craklins...but I'll look up those recipes. :o) Thank you for sharing. :o)
Lisa
My mother talked often about how they made cracklin' corn bread when she was young, and once when we butchered a hog and rendered our own lard, I made some. I prefer regular corn bread without the cracklin's.
My mom made it once, ONCE, when I was a kid for my Dad. I didn't enjoy it at all. My husband doesn't care for it either, so I don't have to worry about him craving it. LOL
~Heather
Why sure I do!! And we fry out the cracklins too! Cut that fat into small pieces. Put in a heavy pot and bring the temperature up. As you Fry out the Cracklins you make grease.....which can be poured up and used. It's lard. Just have to watch the temperature.....if you scorch your lard it will never taste right. You could probably buy some fatback from a butcher to try it yourself. With or without rind is fine. And there is nothing better to fry fish in than fresh lard! ;o) - Barbara
I've never even heard of it! J
OH! nevermind! lol... I just reread your entry and realized I had missed the definition of 'Cracklin'!
Lynn
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Being a country girl, I know what cracklin is, & different uses for it. :)
Sugar
I've never HAD cracklin'. Let alone made any. Something I need to do as a Southern Transplant!
Traci
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