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Re: Bullets and Booze: How WWII Changed America's Drinks

3 by CDFingers
geno wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 3:15 pm Kitchen fats were collected for the glycerin they contained. My Mom use to talk about saving all fat drippings although I don't remember where they took them. Glycerin was used in vital war products, most importantly explosives.
Totally off topic, but my mom always kept a can of bacon drippings in the fridge so fry stuff in, little brush in the can used for like ten or fifteen years.

Back on topic is how many housewives gave up precious pots and pans to make war material with.

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Re: Bullets and Booze: How WWII Changed America's Drinks

6 by highdesert
geno wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 3:15 pm Kitchen fats were collected for the glycerin they contained. My Mom use to talk about saving all fat drippings although I don't remember where they took them. Glycerin was used in vital war products, most importantly explosives.
My family were Midwesterners and they collected their strained fats and took them to their local butcher who paid them and sent them off for processing. Years before recycling became the in thing for environmental reasons, recycling was a big thing during WWII when the US no longer had access to overseas sources.

Interesting video about WWII and booze. We just got through a pandemic and distilleries were pressed into service creating high alcohol hand sanitizers.
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Re: Bullets and Booze: How WWII Changed America's Drinks

7 by TrueTexan
My Mother had a small stovetop coffee percolator that sat next to the stove all my life. She would cook the bacon and eggs in the bacon grease then pour the leftover bacon grease into the percolator. the canister in the top of the percolator would strain out the bacon bits. Even after she had to go in a nursing home Dad continued to do the same. I carry on the tradition except miy percolator sits in the refrigerator since I don't cook bacon that often. when I need some bacon grease i take it out and heat it on the stove to get the grease I want.
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Re: Bullets and Booze: How WWII Changed America's Drinks

8 by papajim2jordan
TrueTexan wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:57 am My Mother had a small stovetop coffee percolator that sat next to the stove all my life. She would cook the bacon and eggs in the bacon grease then pour the leftover bacon grease into the percolator. the canister in the top of the percolator would strain out the bacon bits. Even after she had to go in a nursing home Dad continued to do the same. I carry on the tradition except miy percolator sits in the refrigerator since I don't cook bacon that often. when I need some bacon grease i take it out and heat it on the stove to get the grease I want.
Porkolator?
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Re: Bullets and Booze: How WWII Changed America's Drinks

9 by BearPaws
papajim2jordan wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2024 11:31 am
TrueTexan wrote: Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:57 am My Mother had a small stovetop coffee percolator that sat next to the stove all my life. She would cook the bacon and eggs in the bacon grease then pour the leftover bacon grease into the percolator. the canister in the top of the percolator would strain out the bacon bits. Even after she had to go in a nursing home Dad continued to do the same. I carry on the tradition except miy percolator sits in the refrigerator since I don't cook bacon that often. when I need some bacon grease i take it out and heat it on the stove to get the grease I want.
Porkolator?
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