Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
crackling . - noun US The
crisp renderedskin of apig used as food;crackling (UK) - noun obsolete Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered
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Examples
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Hardscrabble farmers, not wanting to waste an ounce of the hog they'd slaughtered, fried up fatty pork skin into a dish they called cracklings.
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Hardscrabble farmers, not wanting to waste an ounce of the hog they'd slaughtered, fried up fatty pork skin into a dish they called cracklings.
unknown title 2011
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At times, especially in "hog-killing time," the character of the corn bread is varied by putting into the dough "cracklings," which are the browned portions of meat out of which the lard has been tried.
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We look on in the frosty air of the early morn, interested spectators, as the porkers are each dispatched by one dexterous blow of the axe, and then immersed in a cask of hot water to take off the hair, and aid in the trying up of the fat into lard and "cracklings," and, nothing loth, assist in the discussion at the family table of the spare-ribs and sausages; then there are horses to be ridden, and the difficult art acquired of keeping one's equilibrium upon the perilous edge of a frisky steed; then there are evening walks with our sisters up the long oak-lined avenue, and rambles through the encircling woods in pursuit of the black sloes and yellow haws and other winter berries.
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Duck also makes an appearance in a prosciutto, served atop a flatbread with Swiss chard, pecorino, garlic confit and cracklings $8, $16.
Duck, Duck, Goose 2011
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With a great flourish he drew a paper from his girdle, unrolled it with many snappings and cracklings, and thrust it before the face of Pak Chung Chang.
A NOSE FOR THE KING 2010
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Yes, there is even pork belly $22 with porchetta, mustard greens and pork cracklings.
Jay Weston: Ray Stark's Exciting Restaurant Opens at LACMA Jay Weston 2011
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They want to tax your funnel cake filled with pork cracklings!
Think Progress » ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated) 2010
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And that all reminded me of closely-related pork cracklings, the crispy brown bits you get when rendering pork lard or frying down strips of salt pork.
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I hung around for the cracklings, although the fish were pretty good, too.
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