Salt pork

Salt pork

Salt pork is a pork product made from pork bellies, cured with salt as a preservative and flavoring. [ [http://www.answers.com/salt%20pork Salt pork] from Answers.com] It is similar to bacon but considerably fattier and saltier. It was long used as a shipboard ration and finds some use in traditional American cuisine, particularly Boston baked beans. It is commonly used to add flavor in the boiling of vegetables in a traditional New England boiled dinner. It generally must be blanched or rendered before use.

It, along with hardtack, were standard rations in the American Civil War.

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  • salt pork — n. pork cured in salt; esp., fatty pork from the back, side, or belly of a hog …   English World dictionary

  • salt pork — salt′ pork′ n. coo the fat pork from the back, sides, and belly, cured with salt • Etymology: 1715–25 …   From formal English to slang

  • salt pork — noun fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt • Hypernyms: ↑pork, ↑porc • Hyponyms: ↑fatback, ↑sowbelly * * * noun : pork cured in salt or brine; specifically …   Useful english dictionary

  • salt pork — {n.} Very fat pork that has been packed in salt or dipped in brine for curing. * /Mother cooked beans with salt pork for supper./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • salt pork — {n.} Very fat pork that has been packed in salt or dipped in brine for curing. * /Mother cooked beans with salt pork for supper./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • salt\ pork — noun Very fat pork that has been packed in salt or dipped in brine for curing. Mother cooked beans with salt pork for supper …   Словарь американских идиом

  • salt pork —   Pua a pa akai, pua a kāpī.    ♦ To salt pork, kāpī pua a …   English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • salt pork — pork cured with salt, esp. the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly. [1715 25] * * * …   Universalium

  • salt pork — pork fat from taken from the belly or back or sides of a pig and cured with salt …   English contemporary dictionary

  • salt pork — noun Date: 1708 fat pork cured in salt or brine …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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