Many modern recipes contain beef suet, though vegetable shortening is sometimes used in its place.

Although this is not the season for planting, you can start attracting wild birds with beef suet hung in a mesh bag.

Meanwhile, for the puddings, in a large bowl, mix together the flour, beef suet, rosemary, sage and salt until well combined.

Try to get fresh beef suet from your butcher, it really makes a difference for this Christmas pudding with zabaglione sauce recipe.

Pork fat is best because of its high melting point, but beef suet can be substituted.

It resembles shredded beef suet, and is used as a vegetarian substitute in recipes, but with slightly different results from animal suet.

The beef suet, which should be cold, is added in chunks to the dry ingredients, and the fruits and alcohol are folded in last.

In order to reproduce successfully, its diet must be supplemented with fat (rendered beef suet); crab meal, and or a fish based dry cat food.

We also found that although vegetable shortening makes a perfectly good crust, beef suet makes a spectacular one.

Recipe - its ingredients (principally beef suet, oatmeal, onion and blood) are within the tolerance of certain specified proportions.