This is the hilarious moment a pig owner spent 20 minutes rescuing her mischievous pet after it got itself stuck in a barrel. A video shows Rosie Stubbs, 31, from Bilsthorpe, in Nottinghamshire ...

The pork that wasn’t sold locally by the storekeeper could be put down in barrels under brine ... expensive than pork. Lard was made at butchering time by boiling pig’s fat in large iron ...

Good lard starts with good pork fat, and plenty of it. Old recipe books tell you that the fat on a hog's back grows thicker than an inch, but modern pigs are bred to be as slim as greyhounds ...