Suet: Putting the “Eye” in Dumpl-i-ngs
Posted in British, England, Garlic, London, Manchester, Potato, Recipe, beef tallow, carrots, chicken, chicken stock, flavor, flavour, flour, herbs, lard, leek, onions, parsley, parsnips, stew, suet, thyme, vegetables, weather, winter on Jan 16th, 2009
File this one under “utter fabrications told to you by older sibling and believed for too long”. I must have been very young when my sister (15 months my senior) informed me that I should be wary of eating my grandmother’s suet dumplings because suet was the gooey material supporting bovine eye-balls. Quite where she got this [...]
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