Suet—Miss Kelman's Recipe to Clarify it

The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Til... · Lady Clark of Tillypronie · 1909
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The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie
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Ingredients (3)
Instructions (5)
  1. Chop the suet fine and put the pieces in a saucepan (or stewpan) with as much cold water as will cover them.
  2. Add a little salt.
  3. Boil and skim it carefully and stir frequently with an iron spoon, squeezing the suet occasionally against the sides of the pan.
  4. Simmer from 5 hours to a whole day, till it ceases to boil and till all waste pieces of suet have sunk to the bottom of the pan.
  5. Put it aside to cool for 15 minutes, then squeeze, and strain it into a basin or crock kept on purpose for it.
Original Text
Suet—Miss Kelman's Recipe to Clarify it. (Penrose. 1881.) (Suet done so will keep; it also makes it much more delicate.) Take 5 or 6 lbs. of fresh beef suet, chop it fine and put the pieces in a saucepan (or stewpan) with as much cold water as will cover them. Add a little salt, boil and skim it carefully and stir frequently with an iron spoon, squeezing the suet occasionally against the sides of the pan. To simmer from 5 hours to a whole day, till it ceases to boil and till all waste pieces of suet have sunk to the bottom of the pan. Put it aside to cool for 15 minutes, then squeeze, and strain it into a basin or crock kept on purpose for it.
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