Recently, I purchased 4 pounds of suet from the local meat market. I paid $1 extra per pound to have the butcher grind up the suet - worth every penny!
I brought it home and plopped it into my crock pot:
I added about a 1/2 cup of water and let it cook on low. This was after about 20 minutes:
After checking every 15-20 minutes and giving it a stir, eventually I was left with:
We ladled it into two clear glass bowls and popped them in the fridge:
24 hours later, I had clean white tallow disks on the top of the liquid in the bowls! I scraped off the gunk on the underside of the disks, broke them up, and plopped them into airtight containers back into the fridge. I used 24 oz of the tallow in last weekend's pina colada soap. Love it!
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