how many gallons of bacon grease would you
like? My husband is the king of grease-rendering (a sore subject in our
marraige) There are always cans of grease on the stove top and hardening in the
freezer. Would be happy to ship it off to someone. He is always
forgetting to throw it out.
wonder if this works like the old cowboy remedy
I heard about years ago to help toughen the soles of tenderfooted
horses?
Put your heavy cast iron frying pan on the hot
stove, add enough bacon grease to about an inch or more deep. When it
is very hot set it on the ground and set horse's foot in it. Horse
will (?) stand till the heat works into the sensitive inner sole. When
this happens, it's done. Start over on the other
feet.
The idea was to deaden the nerves close to
the surface of the sole.
Never tried it, don't know if it works, but
guess it might.
Howard, i mentioned that i was going to read Cold Mountain
and i did and enjoyed it a lot. In it there is the
strangest recipe for lameness i ever heard that some Gypsies did.."A woman
snubbed a big bay up to a birch trunk and then twitched it and poured lamp
oil on the frog of its hoof and lit fire to it to curb a tendency to
lameness." Thats a new one to me and i just wonder what AERC or the
Vets would think of that? tom
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