Michele Rentner

[Heritage Matters🔱 @HeritageMatterz]

The forest listens, and sometimes it answers.

Irish folk musician Fabian Zechmeister🇮🇪🍀

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

Not all heroes wear capes

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

📺DEBUT: ‘Madame’s Place’ premiered in first-run syndication 44 years ago, September 20, 1982.

The weekday sitcom starred Wayland Flowers’ Hollywood-diva puppet Madame, who lived in a mansion with her butler, secretary and niece while hosting her own talk show.

Though the series ran for just one season, it later developed a cult following

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

The Statue of Liberty was restored in the 80s, the Washington Monument needed repairs in 2011 after an earthquake, again in 2019 for elevators and security, and the Lincoln Memorial restoration began in 2016

Not a single location was renamed for the administration overseeing it.

[GaryD20 Games @GaryD20Games]

GM frens. ☕️🥱

[Neffelie @NeffeliesStuff]

The many faces of Alan Rickman.
...u are missed 💔

[Native American Tribes @americannative_]

I don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakota.

It's called 'Dignity' and was done by artist Dale Lamphere to honor the women of the Sioux Nation.

Thank you for liking my post!

Proud to be Native American

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Until about 1970 every kitchen in Britain and America made its own cooking fat, and the skill was so ordinary that nobody noticed it being taken off them.

In Britain the butcher swept the white trimmings off the block and wrapped them in with your joint for nothing. They went into a heavy pan on the lowest gas, and an hour later the whole street knew. The crackling scraps were salted and handed to whichever child was nearest. The fat went through a sieve into a basin, set white by morning, and ran the week: fried bread, chips, roast potatoes, pastry.

In America it was a can by the stove with a strainer in the lid. Every morning the bacon grease went in, and tomorrow's eggs came out of it. On the farm, hog killing filled the cellar with lard until the next November.

In 1942 Washington asked housewives to carry their kitchen grease to the butcher to be made into explosives, and paid them by the pound. No government could run that campaign now. There is nothing in the kitchen to collect.

What those women were making is what you are made of.

Your brain is about 60% fat. The wall of every cell is built from it. Your hormones are built from cholesterol. Vitamins A, D, E and K dissolve in fat and in nothing else. A mother's milk gets half its energy from fat, and nature is not in the habit of poisoning infants.

You carry an organ, the gallbladder, with no job except handling fat. Nobody has one for bran.

And when your body makes fat from scratch, it makes the same two kinds that fill a dripping basin. It has never once made a drop of soybean oil.

Two things ended it. Washington in 1977 and London in 1984 told the public to cut the fat. Then supermarkets began selling meat ready trimmed, so the raw material was removed at a plant before it reached a kitchen. You cannot render what you are not sold.

That fat now goes to a rendering plant, and a good part of it becomes diesel. Rapeseed oil, which spent a century as engine lubricant, is in the frying pan.

We put the dripping in the truck and the engine oil in the children.

Getting it back takes one afternoon.

- Ask a butcher for beef or pork fat trimmings
- Cut small, heavy pan, splash of water, lowest heat
- 2 hours. It should murmur and never smoke
- Strain it hot into a jar
- Salt the scraps and eat them standing up

Fry an egg in it tomorrow and try to remember why anybody stopped.

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[🍀Louie Kerr 🇮🇪💚 @LouieKerr8]

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[cat.and.greyhound @catandgreyhound]

I act very differently 🫣