How to make lard

You have to understand that Lard comes from rendered pig fat, while Tallow or Suet comes from rendered beef fat.

Rendering is a messy thing to do. Rendering of fat is the melting of the tissue material and collection and solidification of the molten fat.

How to render lard:

1. Buy pig fat. Get parts of the pig that has lots of fats. You can use bacon, but it's quite pricey. Or you can choose to buy pig's skin that still has layers of fat. It's your call, look for parts that are fatty.

*Make sure to separate the meat IF POSSIBLE.

2. Once you have your fats, slice them into smaller bits. 

3. Heat your cooking pot.

4.. Once the pot is hot enough, place your fats. Do not put any oil. Your rendering will produce its own oil from the pig fat.

5. Be patient. You wont see any oil come out from it... yet. Keep stirring the fats on the pot. Once in a while, put 1 oz. of water into it. Just little water.

Everytime you are pouring small amounts of water, it will tend to boil. That's good. Keep stirring.

5. Once the fats you have placed are becoming really toasted and brown, remove the toasted fats and place it aside. Do whatever you want with the burnt fats.

6. Use a strainer to remove some of the left toasted fats. Hey, you only want the rendered liquid oil for your soap. The residue of toasted fats that's still in your rendered oil when used for soap may tend to cause a rancid smell, so make sure there aren't left.

7. After you have filtered your oil, place COLD COLD WATER into the rendered oil. Put more water than the amount of your rendered oil. As you are putting COLD COLD WATER into the oil, you will see white things form on top of your water-oil substance. It's kinda cool. When you are done putting COLD COLD WATER all over, gather all the white hardened oil you can see and compress them and place into another container.

8. Refrigerate.