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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suet
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But every day we would have a pudding, rice or suet, and always different.
▪ Cut down on all fats, particularly those from animal sources especially lard, suet, double cream and full-fat cheeses.
▪ Stir in the suet, herbs and enough cold water to make a soft dough.
▪ Stir the flour, suet, cinnamon and baking powder together then mix in the liquid to bind.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suet

Suet \Su"et\, n. [OE. suet, dim. fr. OF. seu, suif, F. suif, L. sebum. Cf. Soap, Sebaceous.] The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
suet

late 14c., "solid fat formed in the torsos of cattle and sheep," probably from an Anglo-French diminutive of Old French siu "fat, lard, grease, tallow" (Modern French suif), from Latin sebum "tallow, grease" (see sebum). Related: Suety.

Wiktionary
suet

n. The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.

WordNet
suet

n. hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton

Wikipedia
Suet

Suet is raw fat of beef or mutton, especially the hard fat found around the loins and kidneys.

Suet has a melting point of between 45 °C and 50 °C (113 °F and 122 °F) and congelation between 37 °C and 40 °C (98.6 °F and 104 °F). Its high smoke point makes it ideal for deep frying and pastry production.

The primary use of suet is to make tallow, although it is also used as an ingredient in cooking, especially in traditional puddings, such as British Christmas pudding. Suet is made into tallow in a process called rendering, which involves melting and extended simmering, followed by straining, cooling and usually by repeating the entire process. Unlike tallow, suet that is not pre-packed requires refrigeration in order to be stored for extended periods.

Usage examples of "suet".

You could talk to him about os and argos, suet and grease, croteys, fewmets and fiants, but he only looked polite.

Perhaps Gobo alone of the grim and joyful riders, as he sat like a lump of poisoned suet on the trove of his gold, thought of ruling the world.

Pour melted suet over top, using only enough to hold beef and rasins together.

But when he drew closer he saw that it was a little old woman, squatting to bait the sweek stick of a bird trap with a suet gob.

Because in the bags, tins, and bottle, malt and sugar, ginger, anise, and salt of hartshorn, honey and beer, pepper and mutton suet are always in readiness.

Faced with a firelit pool of weapons and the basilisk rampant everywhere he looked, his quivering face drained the color of suet.

Then we had suet puddings, boiled in the broth with the beef: and then the meat itself.

The suet puddings and the red pillar-boxes have entered into your soul.

The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.

So it's on with the old Smock, lovely visit next door, scavenging among th' appropriately siz'd Necks for bones and suet and such.

He concedes that eating is important, but then he remembers his great aunt who was addicted to suet puddings and lived to ninety.

The French make an ointment of Cucumber, using it like cold cream, called 'Pomade aux Concombres,' made with Cucumber juice, lard, veal suet, Balsam of Tolu in alcohol, and rose-water.

But Georgius and Suet remains only a sketch, and it is difficult now to recapture the spirit of the former days, when we used to beat the bounds of the L.

From the dispensary, far aft on the orlop deck, where he and William Smith spent some of the next forenoon grinding quicksilver, hog's lard and mutton suet together to make blue ointment, he could hear Geoghegan practising in the nearby midshipmen's berth, playing scales, changing his reeds, and venturing upon some of the more remarkable flights open to a well-tempered oboe.

By the standards of the body nazis who infest California and Seattle, this is only a marginal improvement over (say) sitting in front of a television chain-smoking unfiltered cigarettes and eating suet from a tub.