Dripping

[Barman]

Hold on... something is coming through the ether like.....

Dripping, also known usually as beef dripping or more rarely, as pork dripping, is an animal fat produced from the fatty or otherwise unusable parts of cow or pig carcasses. It is similar to lard and tallow although tallow is an unacceptable flavor for shortening or cooking generally.

It is used for cooking, especially in British cuisine, significantly so in Northern England, though towards the end of the 20th century dripping had fallen out of favor due to it being regarded as less healthy than vegetable oils such as olive or sunflower.

Traditionally fish and chips were fried in beef dripping, and while this practice does continue in some places, most shops now use vegetable oils, which are generally healthier.

Preparation is traditionally described as collection of the residue from meat roasts but true production is from such residue added to boiling water with a generous amount of salt (about 2g per litre). The stock pot should be chilled and the solid lump of dripping (the cake) which settles when chilled should be scraped clean and re-chilled for future use. The residue can be reprocessed for more dripping and strained through a cheesecloth lined sieve as an ingredient for a fine beef stock. Dripping can be clarified by adding a sliced raw potato and cooking until potato turns brown. The cake will be the color and texture of ghee.

Pork or beef dripping can be served cold, spread on bread and sprinkled with salt (bread and dripping). If the tasty brown sediment and stock from the roast has settled to the bottom of the dripping and colored it brown, then in parts of Yorkshire it is known colloquially as a "mucky fat" sandwich.

Yeh I got google too .......read that ...

but how do you  collect it best ..

I think Mum just used to empty all the meat juices in a pot and stick it in the fridge.... 

That's wot I thought like .......just needed to be sure ......

Then drill down through the white stuff to the brown gold underneath....

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Beef used to be a really cheap meat compared to chicken.  Dripping would be made exactly as BM remembers beef had more fat years ago and it was the juices and fat from the roasting meat that was drained into a bowl and cooled.  the meat juice would sink to the bottom the fat rise to the top.  We used to have dripping on toast for Sunday tea, lashings of salt.  The fat that was left by the following Sunday would be used to roast the potatoes in.

[Barman]

Beef used to be a really cheap meat compared to chicken.  Dripping would be made exactly as BM remembers beef had more fat years ago and it was the juices and fat from the roasting meat that was drained into a bowl and cooled.  the meat juice would sink to the bottom the fat rise to the top.  We used to have dripping on toast for Sunday tea, lashings of salt.  The fat that was left by the following Sunday would be used to roast the potatoes in.

 


 

[Just One More]

Stop it, stop it, stop it      

[Miss Demeanour]

Miss D is the only normal one left 

[Nick]

In which case the human race is doomed

[apc2010]

Beef used to be a really cheap meat compared to chicken.  Dripping would be made exactly as BM remembers beef had more fat years ago and it was the juices and fat from the roasting meat that was drained into a bowl and cooled.  the meat juice would sink to the bottom the fat rise to the top.  We used to have dripping on toast for Sunday tea, lashings of salt.  The fat that was left by the following Sunday would be used to roast the potatoes in.

But I use that for gravy .............so just save some to one side like.......

[Miss Demeanour]

In which case the human race is doomed

It's doomed anyway isn't it according to all the experts 

[Nick]

Yes, we are consuming too much voddy for some reason 

[Darwins Selection]

Miss D is the only normal one left 

I was never keen on it if that makes you feel any better

[Miss Demeanour]

Much better ...thank you 

[apc2010]

Miss D is the only normal one left 

I was never keen on it if that makes you feel any better

Wot normal .............

[Pirate]

Dripping...Dripping... bloody luxury...

we couldn't afford meat...

we just had bread...and salt...

BTW...what are dripping cakes made with then...eh...eh

[Just One More]

Are they the same as lardy cakes

[Snoopy]

Lardy cakes 

Now that takes me back to short trousers, watching footy with Granddad and then back for tea at me Granny's.