What to do with duck fat?

[miss_thenorth]

i cooked one of our muscovies the other day and got about 1/2 lb of fat. What should I do with it?

PS. the duck was awesome--tasted like roast beef with no greasy taste at all, and all that lovely duck fat (that i don't know what to do with it.)

 

[big brown horse]

deep fry your home grown french fries in it!

 

[Wifezilla]

Use it to cook greens and brussel sprouts

 

[miss_thenorth]

Thanks, I threw it in the freezer for now, b/c I did not know how long it would last in the fridge.

It really has no smell,--could it be substituted for lard?

 

[freemotion]

I've never used it, but duck and goose fat is supposed to be the best cooking fat! I'd reportion it into small canning jars so one small one can live in the fridge. Experiment and let us know! I seem to remember reading something about goose fat on www.themodernhomestead.us, something that made me want some...

 

[me&thegals]

I've never used it, but duck and goose fat is supposed to be the best cooking fat!

This is what I have heard also!

 

[patandchickens]

Make confit! You can use chicken meat even though the recipes you find will say use the duck meat. But duck *fat* works better than chicken fat. Try it, it is yummo and keeps a good long time

Pat

 

[urban dreamer]

I must have missed this, I thought muscovies were illegal?

 

[miss_thenorth]

I must have missed this, I thought muscovies were illegal?

Theres somethng going on with them over in the states, but it doesn't concern me--even if it did concern me-- if you know what I mean. I think it has to something with having them for pets, but I have them for meat obviously.

Anyways...... I had leftover duck meat, but dh just ate it all. I will have to look up confit.

I heard duck fat is the bests cooking fat also, so I didn't want to corrupt it by not using it in a fitting manner.

 

[patandchickens]

Muscovies were accidentally (because of an oversight) temporarily banned from being raised domestically in the US -- but AFAIK the error has since been corrected and they are perfectly legal as long as you are raising them in captivity not releasing them.

And as miss_thenorth says, that's in the US anyhow not Canada (where muscovies are NOT going to set up feral populations, lol)

Confit is where you've preserved yer meat by sort of embedding it in solidified fat.

Pat