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Rendering Beef Tallow the Easy and Traditional Way 2

Render Tallow Recipe

The traditional method for rendering tallow from an intact piece of suet that you can obtain from a pastured farmer.

Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Take an intact piece of suet and cut into medium to small pieces. Remove the kidney and set aside.

    piece of suet

  2. Place the suet pieces in a large pan.

    Rendering Beef Tallow the Easy and Traditional Way 1

  3. Place pan in an oven preheated to 175-200 °F/ 79-93 °C

  4. Every hour or so, remove pan and pour off melted tallow. Sieve through a cheesecloth to remove any tissue. 

    Rendering Beef Tallow the Easy and Traditional Way

  5. Continue process until all the fat has rendered. This will take a few hours. Tallow is quite yellow when it is liquid.

  6. Pour strained tallow into glass mason jars after it has cooled. Screw on the lids and refrigerate. As it hardens in the fridge, tallow turns a whitish beige color. Tallow will keep for many months.

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