suet

Hard cooking fat

Suet is the hard white fat found around the kidneys and loins of cattle and sheep.

In cooking, it's used to make pastry, puddings, and dumplings—traditional British dishes like steak and kidney pudding or Christmas pudding rely on suet for richness and texture.

Suet cakes mixed with seeds are sold as bird food.

cooking

pudding

Creamy thickened sweet dish

pastry · Christmas pudding · spotted dick · haggis · steamed pudding · British · traditional · savory · hearty · stews

birdfeed

feeder

Source of input

nuthatch · woodpecker · finch · sparrow · robin · jays · starling · warbler · birdbath · winter feeding

animalfat

tallow

Rendered animal fat

kidney fat · beef fat · mutton fat · congealed · fatty · white fat · butcher · trimming · grease · schmaltz

Categories
Opposites
animal fat type

suetlard

Clarified pork fat

bacon fat · schmaltz · duck fat · tallow · dripping

fat source (animal vs. plant)

suetolive oil

Fruit-pressed culinary fat

vegetable oil · coconut oil · canola oil · sunflower oil · margarine

texture/physical state

suetoil

Slippery viscous fluid

rendered fat · melted butter · clarified butter

Phrases
Family

suet pudding

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G