suet

UK/ˈs(j)uːɪt/

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Suet is hard white fat used in old-fashioned cooking. Suet pudding, shredded suet, a suet crust.

It comes from around the kidneys and is hard at room temperature, which is why it stays in lumps in a pastry and melts to leave a light open crumb. Dumplings, steamed puddings and mincemeat all depend on it. Bird feeders use it in winter.

Definitions of suet

1nounsuetHard white fat used in old-fashioned cooking.C2
“My grandmother used suet to make her dumplings light and soft.”

suet is a fat.

Where it comes from

Anglo-Norman suet comes from Latin sebum, tallow or fat.

Latin
sebum
Old French
seu
Anglo-Norman
suet
Middle English
suet
English, today
suet

From Middle English suet, sewet, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suet, siuet, from Old French seu, from Latin sebum.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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suet in the wild

The primary use of suet is in tallow, although it is also used as an ingredient in cooking, especially in traditional baked puddings, such as British Christmas pudding.
Suet
Savoury puddings include Yorkshire pudding, black pudding, suet pudding and steak and kidney pudding.
Pudding
In industry, tallow is not strictly defined as beef or mutton suet.
Tallow
Spotted dick is a traditional British steamed pudding, historically made with suet and dried fruit (usually currants or raisins) and often served with custard.
Spotted dick
Non-traditional variants include recipes that replace suet with other fats (such as butter), or that include eggs to make something similar to a sponge pudding or cake.
Spotted dick

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