Salt pork

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Salt pork is a pork product made from pork bellies, cured with salt as a preservative and flavoring.^[1] It is similar to bacon but considerably fattier and saltier. It was long used as a shipboard ration and finds some use in traditional American cuisine, particularly Boston baked beans. It is commonly used to add flavor in the boiling of vegetables in a traditional New England boiled dinner. It generally must be blanched or rendered before use.

It, along with hardtack, were standard rations in the American Civil War.

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• Salo

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