[Sca-cooks] beef fat, was meat sale

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> i was going to feed it to the birds.... but how would you recomend
rendering
> it down? i have only limited experience with beef fat. i just asked them
to
> grind it because i *know* it makes it easier to use.  i tried making soap
> with it once (never again) and my hubby has suggested candles......

Start with a small amount of water in a pan, and heat it- add the fat. Let
it mumble away, as the fat seperates from the connective tissue, until you
have some solid material, rather fibrous, and pure fat.

Some people will just let the entire thing render down in water- when you
cool it, it's easy to seperate the fat from the water. I prefer to start
with water, but let it evaporate as the fat becomes liquid.

Cracklins are the remaining connective tissue, which, having been ground,
will be rather fibrous- you remove that from the fat. It's deep fat fried
and crispy when done right, and a bit of a taste treat for those of us who
like that sort of thing- rather like pork rinds.

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirsten Houseknecht" <kirsten at fabricdragon.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] beef fat, was meat sale


> Kirsten
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
> To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: ? meat sale
>
>
> >
> > Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> >
> > > now... does anyone have any brilliant ideas on using the fat? i know
> > > technically "suet" is a specific fat....
> > > Kirsten
> >
> > Two things, depending on what you prefer.
> >
> > Set it up in a net bag, and hang it out for the wild birds.
> >
> > Render it down for tallow, and freeze it, so you can try it the next
time
> > you have a period recipe using beef fat, which is rendered.
> >
> > Save me the cracklins- GOOD munchies ;-)
> >
> > Phlip
> >
> >  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> > cat.
> >
> > Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> > And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> >
> >
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