Tallow is a saturated animal fat you’ll want to keep stocked in your pantry for its countless uses, think homemade cosmetics, candle - or soapmaking. Here are my five favorite ways to use it! As a family who loves meat but seeks to raise animals in a way that honors their life, we try to use as much of the animal as possible. For instance, when we butcher our chickens, the cleaned feet go in the stock pot, and the feathers go into our compost pile. From our pig, we use every possible cut of meat and render the fat into snow-white lard that we use for cooking and frying. In commercial meat processing situations, fat is usually collected and rendered for animal feed. Even … [Read more...]