I didn't know you was from Pixburgh!!

My mother's side ...all lived in Pittsburgh..

Yes...suet fat

Found it at a grocery store up here ...called Market basket.

1.39 lb...for Beef Suet

So 4 pounds got me 1 & 1/2 jars.

The chickens get the cracklings....in small amounts...to heat them up in this cold weather.

I went to buy some beef tallow for my bird feeders. That stuff costs as much as steak per pound! I had some venison tallow I put out, but the birds have pretty well cleaned that up.
I found some suet blocks, but they have seeds in them and the squirrels wipe them out in a couple of days.

I use coon fat, the birds love it

Yes, they do. But, I didn't have any coon fat this year.

I ended up with more coon than I wanted this season and the birds are in heaven
As soon as the fat is picked off I put them in the field for the bigger birds
Circle of Life

I make beef oil whenever I trim a brisket

Render coon oil for boot dressing. Pretty good patch lube for roundball black powder to. Never cooked with it but fat not trimmed off cooked coon meat is not terrible. Tastes better than deer fat to me. Never made soap. Was pretty young when I saw great gramma doing it. Thinking of trying it just for the novelty

When I had my outdoor wood boiler, coon fat was a great fire starter. Better than kerosene.

For a buck thirty nine I'd buy it too, already save bacon grease and make lard from pork trimmings...Love some tallow.

Jaime

I add some to my brisket before I wrap it. Makes for a juicy brisket.

I'm going to try making French fries in it. I've read that McDonald's used to cook their French fries in beef tallow.

We butcher around 6 hogs every year. I render the lard. Get between 8-10 gallons every year. Has many uses. Our favorite is the crackling make th he best Scooby snacks for our Lab. All natural and cheap.

"Leaf Lard" is the Cadillac of lards.Hard to get a butcher to keep it seperate anymore though.Gets mixed in with the rest.Beef tallow is what I use when I make Pemmican.

I like to eat the cracklins myself also,,,but try a few chunks down a dirthole set sometime.They like it too.If you have a smoke house,,put a bunch of them cracklins in a ham bag and hang them is the smoker for a few hours.YUMMY