My mother and grandmother always had a jar or can of grease sitting near the stove.
I grew up thinking that it was bacon grease that they planned to reuse and wondered how they kept it from getting rancid. Now I know that they weren’t keeping that grease to reuse… they were keeping it out of the kitchen pipes. Living out in the country, if the pipes got clogged and caused a backup, Mom or Granny wo…
