Alan Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I got my butcher to grind up my suet, which saved me a lot of work and made >the rendering go much faster. Don mentioned that it takes hours to >render; it depends on how much you're rendering. In my first pemmican >experiment I only rendered about a pound of suet at a time, and using very >low heat I'd guess it took 15-20 minutes to render. I'm using a large teflon frying pan on low heat. It takes more or less a half hour. >I'm not sure if rendering twice is necessary, unless you're really >concerned about it keeping a long time. I'm also keeping mine in the >fridge, don't know if I need to. I render only once. Today I ate rendered suet with pig heart fried in lard. I had made the suet about 9 months ago. I found it in a glass jar stored in a closet. It looked and smelled just fine. I don't like suet when its liquid. I like it when it's hard. It's like chewing a candle. Fredrik