Goose fat

[Theditchman]

Has anyone got any recipes for making a good lube from goose fat?..I just got back from England and you can buy it cheap in any supermarket..Maybe mixing it with a little beeswax?

[country gent]

A lot of the old lubes used rendered animal fats beeswaxs and steam oils to make bullet lubes.
Emmerts was one you might try with this 50% beeswax 40% rendered fat ( modern day recipe is Crisco shortening) and 10% canola or olive oil.

Rendering animal fats down isn't hard but can be a pain to do and time consuming. I use a crock pot 8 quart. Fill with water. Wrap the fat in several layers of cheese cloth and a weight if needed to keep it down. Heat on high for 5-6 hours. This will melt the fat and allow the cheese cloth to hold larger impurities and others to settle out. Let cool the rendered fat ( now lard) cook and remove the solidified layer and dry. Even rendered the shelf life can be short before it goes rancid. Your removing all the bits of meat, body salts, hair, bone, and other things. A big pot and long heat time allows the impurities to settle out and just the fat to be removed

[AllanD]

IF I had access to goose fat I wouldn't be lubing bullets with it, But I'd never again cook
potatoes in anything else!

Venison Tallow is another matter, it's useless for anything else, as is Mutton/Lamb Tallow because of it's sticky horrible "mouth feel" and people think peanut butter sticks to the room of your mouth!

[GONRA]

GONRA wonders - is Goose Phat as goode as ALOX 2831F? ???

[Traffer]

IF I had access to goose fat I wouldn't be lubing bullets with it, But I'd never again cook
potatoes in anything else!

Venison Tallow is another matter, it's useless for anything else, as is Mutton/Lamb Tallow because of it's sticky horrible "mouth feel" and people think peanut butter sticks to the room of your mouth!

I have never eaten goose grease except when it is in the goose HOWEVER my mother said that through the depression they used to use it instead of butter cuz butter was so expensive. She said she likes goose grease on bread as a sandwich.
You are right about the venison tallow...nasty sensation in the mouth.

[GONRA]

GONRA sez -with our Chicago suburb family, same thing with Bacon Phat in WW II.

[Winger Ed.]

Something that might be easier to get here in the states:

Awhile back there was a thread about someone taking their little pedigree dog to the horse doctor,
and while there they 'expressed' the glands at the exhaust port under it's tail.

There was a discussion about practical uses for what came out.
The black powder guys thought it might make a good cloth patch boolit lube.

[randyrat]

You just ruined my shooting and making lube, for ever

[Winger Ed.]

You just ruined my shooting and making lube, for ever

I'm ashamed of myself for laughing at that.

[rhbrink]

Something that might be easier to get here in the states:

Awhile back there was a thread about someone taking their little pedigree dog to the horse doctor,
and while there they 'expressed' the glands at the exhaust port under it's tail.

There was a discussion about practical uses for what came out.
The black powder guys thought it might make a good cloth patch boolit lube.

Nah! Made perfume with it