salt pork

noun, N. Amer., cured pork fat, highly salted (COD)

“In the springtime, we’d kill a couple of pigs, and we’d salt them down in brine for the summer, but man did you ever get sick of salt pork.”

“We used to shoot pike in the springtime, put them on the table. It’s totally illegal, but … I guess we looked upon it, it was our privilege to do so.”
“And it was better than salt pork.”

“Mom told me that her grandmother one time went up there to visit her mother, and they had just salted down some pork, and the mother said, ‘Look he’s not here now; you can go and take as much salt pork as you can carry’.”