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Beef Tallow

Was brougt up using mainly butter and olive and sunflower oil. Have never looked for tallow/beef dripping. Didn't realise it was even commonly for sale - thought it had fallen out of general use with the decline from favour of saturated rendered animal fat until reading Barriehie's posts
 
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Z-Cook said:
Was brougt up using mainly butter and olive and sunflower oil. Have never looked for tallow/beef dripping. Didn't realise it was even commonly for sale - thought it had fallen out of general use with the decline in favour of saturated rendered animal fat until reading Barriehie's posts
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Same here
Sunflower oil, olive oil and occassionally butter..
Not much dee frying, but I do remember we had an electric deep fryer and dad used ossewit in it.
I just can't remember what we made in it except for sometimes oliebollen for new year.
 
I've never used tallow, but I have used duck fat for various things, including potatoes, which turned out great. I've also used lard for various things, especially Latin dishes. Even used leaf lard, which is a premium fat product, just the fat around kidneys IIRC, and it made some of the best pastry we've ever had, flaky and tender, and didn't have a porky taste at all.
 
Z-Cook said:
Was brougt up using mainly butter and olive and sunflower oil. Have never looked for tallow/beef dripping. Didn't realise it was even commonly for sale - thought it had fallen out of general use with the decline from favour of saturated rendered animal fat until reading Barriehie's posts
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Crisco brand shortening and oil and butter for eggs here.
 
medtran49 said:
I've never used tallow, but I have used duck fat for various things, including potatoes, which turned out great. I've also used lard for various things, especially Latin dishes. Even used leaf lard, which is a premium fat product, just the fat around kidneys IIRC, and it made some of the best pastry we've ever had, flaky and tender, and didn't have a porky taste at all.
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I have some lard I get at Morelo's Market that I use for some things. It's used once to fry pork rinds and they sell it $1/lb. It's like buying bacon grease but a lot cheaper than the national grocery chain.
 
Barriehie said:
I have some lard I get at Morelo's Market that I use for some things. It's used once to fry pork rinds and they sell it $1/lb. It's like buying bacon grease but a lot cheaper than the national grocery chain.
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Lard is a pretty good fat when unhydrogenated, like the stuff you get from your market. Fantastic price.
 
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