Mutton Fat in Baking
Dear Aunt Daisy, Can you tell me if there is a way of making mutton fat soft and pliable enough to use in cake making, the same way as one would use beef dripping? We eat more mutton 'than: beef, and I get quite a lot of mutton fat. -* Forget-me-not" (Wellington). 1 invited the Links in the Daisy Chain to discuss this question, for it is of interest to so many country farmers who kill their own mutton. Here are a couple of good replies: Dear Aunt Daisy, I heard you asking about mutton fat for baking. Well it is splendid. I used no other for years. Being on a sheep station, it was all mutton! I was considered an expert on biscuits, and al! of them were made with mutton fat. I used to cut off all the extra fat frorn the chops and roasts (if too fat). I never used any that had been cooked, I melted all the outside fat either in the oven or in a pan on the top of the stove. When it was melted and set, I used to put it back in the pan, just cover with water, and bring to the boil. Let it set again, and then remove any sediment from the bottom. This I did several times, and the result was lovely, white, tasteless, soft fat. It was put aside just for biscuits and puddings, and most of our cakes, and they were always lovely. Of course, a little extra salt must be added when baking, as there is none
in the dripping. If the Link tries thig method, I do not think anyone who eats her cooking will know that mutton fat instead of butter was used.
Cambridge
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 46
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294Mutton Fat in Baking New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 46
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