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does anyone know where I can buy either of these 2 items ?? I live in NY state and have tried both A&P and Stop and Shop...... are there any speciality baking shops I could try ???
does anyone know where I can buy either of these 2 items ?? I live in NY state and have tried both A&P and Stop and Shop...... are there any specialty baking shops I could try ???
Suet is raw beef fat, usually around the kidneys. that is generally used in puddings and pastry crusts. This is a specialty product and MUST be ordered from a butcher. You will NOT find this in your average supermarket as the large chains bring in all their meats prepackages or in primal cuts.
Do not confuse this with the beef fat sold as suet for birds in the winter.
As for ground almonds, I would get roasted almonds and grind them in a cofee grinder or use a blender.
Suet is raw beef fat, usually around the kidneys. that is generally used in puddings and pastry crusts. This is a specialty product and MUST be ordered from a butcher. You will NOT find this in your average supermarket as the large chains bring in all their meats prepackages or in primal cuts.
Do not confuse this with the beef fat sold as suet for birds in the winter.
As for ground almonds, I would get roasted almonds and grind them in a cofee grinder or use a blender.
Hope that helps.
Actually it's often found in supermarkets that have little British sections on their international aisle, since it's a common ingredient there and sold in a box on the shelf. It's imported rather than prepared on site.
yeah its usually in a box and you make pastry with it. I have a fabulous steamed Steak pudding recipe my husband loves.... the meat takes 2 days and the pastry needs to steam for 4 hours..... but he loves t so what can I do.... I found a british food site - thank you - but my god its expensive .....
Actually it's often found in supermarkets that have little British sections on their international aisle, since it's a common ingredient there and sold in a box on the shelf. It's imported rather than prepared on site.
Twenty years ago, MOST small groceries carried suet and it was pretty reasonable. If the OP was in Chicago, I could have found her a quick source for the product as well as leaf lard, which is the pork equivalent.
Twenty years ago, MOST small groceries carried suet and it was pretty reasonable. If the OP was in Chicago, I could have found her a quick source for the product as well as leaf lard, which is the pork equivalent.
Then people found out what it was and stopped using it probably!
If you use suet quite regularly you might try what I did. I went to the butcher at the local supermarket and explained my predicament at not being able to find suet anywhere to make Christmas puddings and he finally said he'd put me together a bag in the next few days. He did as promised but I took one look at this HUGE bag and it was loaded with meat bits. I explained that that just wouldn't work, it needed to be really clean. He said they clean the grinder the end of every day and would have to clean it and THEN grind the fat for me, thus necessitating two cleanings. He'd already gone to enough trouble and I thanked him profusely and left deciding that Christmas Puds just weren't in my future.
Two days later and I was in the store again and he called me over and presented me with a HUGE bag of beautifully clean and white suet, no charge. I divvied the suet up into small freezer bags and for the next couple of years I made Christmas puddings and all sorts of other steamed suet puddings.
PS: And the butcher got a Christmas Pud for his family too along with the brandy butter!
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