Crossword clues for fatback
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fatback \Fat"back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The menhaden.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard 2 A fish, the menhaden.
WordNet
n. salt pork from the back of a hog carcass
Wikipedia
Fatback is a cut of meat from a domestic pig. It consists of the layer of adipose tissue ( subcutaneous fat) under the skin of the back, with or without the skin ( pork rind). Fatback is "hard fat", distinct from the visceral fat that occurs in the abdominal cavity and is called "soft fat" and leaf lard.
Like other types of pig fat, fatback may be rendered to make a high quality lard, and is one source of salt pork. Finely diced or coarsely ground fatback is an important ingredient in sausage making and in some meat dishes.
Fatback is an important element of traditional charcuterie. In several European cultures it is used to make specialty bacon. Containing no skeletal muscle, this bacon is a delicacy.
At one time fatback was Italy's basic cooking fat, especially in regions where olive trees are sparse or absent, but health concerns have reduced its popularity. However, it provides a rich, authentic flavour for the classic battuto – sautéed vegetables, herbs and flavourings – that forms the basis of many traditional dishes. Today, pancetta is often used instead.
Usage examples of "fatback".
The other took a plate of biscuits and fatback from the warming oven built into one side of the fireplace.
Jimmy, a big country boy with rosy cheeks and a fatback smile that never left his face, elbowed his way to them.
Breakfast never changes: eggs, grits, fatback, deep-fried salmon patties, liver mush, and the usual bacon, ham, hot-cakes, and biscuits.
The man had well-muscled arms and legs, but a belly that was yielding to a love of fatback and grits.
There was also some fatback, which Ryan guessed was another of the commodities that Claggartville traded for their whaling produce.
In the knock of axes, the plunking of a banjo being tuned, the smell of corn mush and fatback frying, it was not hard to pretend they were all young fellows and good friends assembling for a camp meeting or coon hunt.
For the brethren, there were hickory-nut biscuits, and honey, and cups of chicory, and even the other refugee kids-who on occasion during the long bitter winter had been fed as close to nothing at all as law and appearances would allow-got a few slices of fried fatback along with their habitual cornmeal mush.
Now most of the men were stowing the last few items and harnessing the horses, occasionally pausing to grab one of the hotcakes and rashers of fried fatback the women cooked and handed out in relays.
Thick slices of fatback bacon had seen so little of the frying pan that sharp bristles were untouched.
It knew to eat meat, and they fed it little pieces of fatback from the end of a splinter.
Ruby came to find out he had cooked it up with a strip of fatback and eaten it like cresses.
He was the only man in the realm, slave or free, who ate dirt, but while the bondage women, particularly the pregnant ones, ate it for some incomprehensible need, for that something that ash cakes and apples and fatback did not give their bodies, he ate it not only to discover the strengths and weaknesses of the field, but because the eating of it tied him to the only thing in his small world that meant almost as much as his own life.
Before freedom she had known only slave food, plenty of fatback and ash cakes and the occasional mouthful of rape or kale.
The soup was flavored with fatback, diced carrots, onions, barley, summer squash, beef stock, garlic, peppercorns, and just the right amount of salt.
At each house she stopped for a few minutes to sit in the kitchen and talk, and gradually the smells of kerosene and fatback stopped seeming strange to her and she began to feel comfortable with the stooped, prematurely aged women who offered her buttermilk and ginger cake to put some meat on her bones.