Picture(s) of the Month

We now have beef suet (fat from the kidney channel fat in the animal) for sale in our online store in 2 lb packages. Recently we rendered some suet down into tallow. The first picture is the tallow while it is still hot. The second picture is the tallow the next morning after it has cooled. Notice the yellow colour, even after it has cooled. This colour comes from the green grass that the animals ate this summer and indicates the many fat soluble vitamins and other nutrients in this fat. It is a little lighter than normal this year because of the drought. Our cattle had little or no green grass to eat after about the middle of July this year. We keep a jar of tallow beside the kitchen range and use it for frying things like eggs. We had been using olive oil but prefer tallow because of it’s high smoke point.