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Salo or slanina [a] is a European food consisting of salt-cured slabs of pork subcutaneous fat [1] with or without skin and with or without layers of meat. It is commonly eaten and known under different names across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
Mortadella Bologna PGI from Italy Mortadella with pistachios from Italy. Mortadella (Italian: [mortaˈdɛlla]) [1] is a large salume made of finely hashed or ground cured pork, which incorporates at least 15% small cubes of pork fat (principally the hard fat from the neck of the pig).
Lard has always been an important cooking and baking staple in cultures where pork is an important dietary item, with pig fat often being as valuable a product as pork. [6] During the 19th century, lard was used in a similar way to butter in North America and many European nations. [7]
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Flat bread made with chickpea flour and water, also known as fainá (masculine noun in Uruguay, feminine noun in Argentina). Felipe: Leavened Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay: Hard crust, leavened, wheat. Filone: Leavened Italy: Similar to a French baguette. Flatbread: Flatbread: Global Bread that is flat in shape, often round in shape.
According to a 2018 BBC report, researchers who analysed more than 1,000 raw foods, ranked pork fat as the 8th-most nutritious food and gave it a nutritional score of 74. The researchers explained that pig fat was a good source of B vitamins and minerals, and contained more unsaturated fats than lamb or beef fat. [1] [2]
Strutto, clarified pork fat or lard, a type of shortening common in Italy and Corsica (where it is named sdruttu). Shortening is any fat that is a solid at room temperature and is used to make crumbly pastry and other food products.
In German cuisine, cracklings of pork or goose (Grieben) are often added to lard (Schmalz) when it is used as a bread spread. [12] Crackling is often added to doughs and batters to make crackling bread [2] (French pompe aux grattons [13]), crackling biscuits (Hungarian tepertős pogácsa [6]), or potato pancakes (oladyi). [14]