suet
Definitions
General English
- noun the hard fat from around an animal’s kidneys, used in cooking
Food
- The hard fat surrounding kidneys which has very good cooking properties. Used for suet pastry and puddings and in sweet mincemeat fillings. Commercial suet is granulated and coated with up to 15 per cent flour or starch to prevent sticking.
Origin & History of “suet”
Suet goes
back ultimately to Latin
sēbum ‘tallow’,
which also produced
English sebaceous (18
th c.).
this passed into Anglo-
Norman as
seu or
sue, of which a presumed diminutive
form *
sewet gave English
suet.
