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The Nasty Bits: Suet

Suet is my new favorite fat. It is, for reasons baffling to me, the least known of all the animal fats we use in our kitchens. Its porcine equivalent is leaf lard, the cylindrical mass of fat surrounding the kidneys of the pig; suet is the term we use for the fat surrounding the kidneys of cows.

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9 Comments | Posted by Chichi Wang, October 26, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Tagged: baking, biscuits, lard, Nasty Bits, Suet

In Gear: Tools Kept for Once-a-Year Dishes

In my family, change is largely avoided. While this attitude can prove maddening in some cases, it has imbued our Christmases with a warm, comforting predictability and sense of tradition.

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5 Comments | Posted by Amanda Clarke, December 27, 2007 at 3:00 PM
Tagged: In Gear, suet

The English Food Pyramid

The English Food Pyramid is pretty hilarious to me—but then I'm not an English nutritionist. The very tip of the pyramid is labeled "Fats, Oils and Sweets", contains lard, suet, bacon, shortbread, heavy cream and castor sugar, and has the notation "eat sparingly". [via malaclyps del.icio.us]...

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2 Comments | Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 23, 2007 at 3:25 PM
Tagged: bacon, English, food pyramid, health, lard, nutrition, suet