[Sca-cooks] Lard and suet
Jennifer Carlson
talana1 at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 7 07:28:36 PST 2011
I can get pig's back fat from my local Asian grocery and render the lard myself. I render tallow about once a year, mostly for the husband's shoemaking needs, but I do use some for cooking.
One of Tulsa's butchers has suet only at Christmas time, but what you get is a box of mixed fats, some of which will be actual kidney fat, the rest being relatively "clean" but ordinary beef fat.
If I want leaf lard, I'd probably have to start with buying a pig.
By the way, the last time I was in the Asian market, I saw little plastic containers of blood in the meat section. Any idea what kind they might be? I don't read Chinese and couldn't find anyone to ask.
Talana
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