Again with the rendered bacon... Yes and I think there will be more where this came from 'cause now the possibilities are endless. Smalec started of as a simple way for poor folk to preserve some bacon fat. Somebody added onions and it was better, somebody added apples and it was better still. I live in Southern California not far from the ocean and apples don't grow in my yard but mangoes do and so could peaches and apricots and nectarines and... Came up with this smalec variation out of necessity and it worked out real nice for me and the futur of smalec production everywhere.
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I've always liked the idea of making my own cheese, well, actually, I've always liked the idea of making most of my food myself. In fact one of the first books I've ever bought for myself was 
Few thing smell as good to me as onions frying in butter or especially bacon fat. It's always a good start to any tasty sauce or meal. In the Polish village tradition it can be a dish all onto itself. The poor man's answer to the rich man's butter - smalec.
In SoCal the winter is citrus season - lemon trees, lime trees, mandarin trees, etc are all heavy with ripe fruit. I bet a lot of this backyard goodness just goes to waste. At this time of year, even though I try, the ground under my key lime tree is covered with rotting limes.
This one, as well as several other recipes I've made, was inspired by the book 
