Suet
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I have to admit that I did actually read the ingredients before making this large batch of Monster Chip cookies (my husband's favorite) and saw that the ingredients were Suet and Rice Flour. Suet seemed vaguely familiar so I just rolled with it. Plus it said "no refrigeration required" so I assumed (you know what that does folks) that it wasn't animal product. I opened my tub of Shreddo and it looked like shortening that had been cut into some rice flour. After mixing the floury mixture in with my cookie dough and placing the first sheet in the oven I wasn't happy with my ignorance so I looked up Suet. Oh how I wish I wouldn't have.
So here I have a huge batch of cookies full of fat from the kidneys of some cow or lamb. My children each had some (Dawn, avert your eyes) cookie dough before it was baked so not only did I have them ingest raw egg but raw kidney padding. Jake is convinced that we'll eat all of the cookies and I do feel a little better now that they've been baked but not much. I tried one and they are no where near as good as my mother in laws at home. Plus there's this faint smell of roasting meat while I am baking them. I could just be imagining it. But hey, they are browning nicely! :)
I guess it's back to the drawing board with the cookie making. Just say no to Shreddo!
Suet (/ˈsuː.ɪt/) is raw beef or mutton fat, especially the hard fat found around the loins and kidneys.Yummy. Also marketed as "shortening" here in NZ. This is my first hard lesson in not paying attention at the grocery store. I had talked with several other ex pats who hadn't been able to find shortening and when I saw the little tub of Shreddo labeled as shortening at my favorite new store Moore Wilson, I was rather pleased with myself. "Haha, Chris has been here 6 years and I found this before he did." I'm really not a nice person and this is what they call Karma, or in my friend Matt's family, Bachi.
I have to admit that I did actually read the ingredients before making this large batch of Monster Chip cookies (my husband's favorite) and saw that the ingredients were Suet and Rice Flour. Suet seemed vaguely familiar so I just rolled with it. Plus it said "no refrigeration required" so I assumed (you know what that does folks) that it wasn't animal product. I opened my tub of Shreddo and it looked like shortening that had been cut into some rice flour. After mixing the floury mixture in with my cookie dough and placing the first sheet in the oven I wasn't happy with my ignorance so I looked up Suet. Oh how I wish I wouldn't have.
So here I have a huge batch of cookies full of fat from the kidneys of some cow or lamb. My children each had some (Dawn, avert your eyes) cookie dough before it was baked so not only did I have them ingest raw egg but raw kidney padding. Jake is convinced that we'll eat all of the cookies and I do feel a little better now that they've been baked but not much. I tried one and they are no where near as good as my mother in laws at home. Plus there's this faint smell of roasting meat while I am baking them. I could just be imagining it. But hey, they are browning nicely! :)
I guess it's back to the drawing board with the cookie making. Just say no to Shreddo!
ugh, gag. maybe you should try rendering your own lard. did i send you a link to the "homesick texan" blog? she does a good job explaining how to do it and it's benefits. i thought it was very interesting. not sure that i have the desire to do it myself, but hey it might be worth it if you made a big batch.
hahahaha!
Word on the street is that 'Cremelta' is the local equivalent of Crisco: apparently the consistency is quite different though, and it's not a perfect substitute. Someplace in Australia actually imports and sells Crisco though, so we may go in on an order with some folks.
Let me know if you want us to ship you some Crisco!!
:) Julie
Oh, man. When you think about it, it's not really that much worse (or worse for you) than butter though. :)
MEAT COOKIES!
I like my cookies medium rare, please.
um, was that tub of shortening expired :)
I am laughing so hard! My brother used to call grilled ham and cheese 'meat cookies'..but you've taken it to a new level!! HAH!
Oh Dawn, yes it is. And I didn't even notice until you pointed it out. I can't even blame the date format for this one. Guess I was determined to do some damage with that purchase.