Shortening for Pies

Ingredients

• a pound of fresh beef suet
• a pound of sweet lard

Method

1. 1

   Chop the beef suet, pick out all the strings, put it in a stew-pan with the sweet lard, melt them together.

2. 2

   When the suet is entirely melted, strain it through a fine tin strainer and set away in a cold place, and use it in the place of butter for plain pie-crust.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Shortening for Pies. Ohop a pound «»f fresh beef suet, pick out all the strings, put it in a stew-pan with a pound of sweet lard

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