tallow
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8.8
- noun
- /ˈtæloʊ/
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sebo
- Once the tallow hardens, we skim off a layer of glycerin.
- hides and tallow
So this would be grass fed butter, ghee, tallow, coconut oil, right?
- So this would be grass fed butter, ghee, tallow, coconut oil, right?
- You know, you can use coconut oil, ghee, butters, tallow or grass fed butter for cooking.
- They would export the hides back to Spain to make leather goods and tallow for candles.
- Now in those days there was no electricity lamps you you lit with tallow candles or in some cases oil lamps.
- So those would be the five Liver, heart, spleen, bone broth, connective tissue and real good animal fat, specifically animal tallow or the suet from the kidneys.
- And so if you have really, really dry skin and, and get aged and weathered skin, you want to get tallow or beef tallow.
- You're going to use bacon grease, beef tallow, chicken fat, butter, ghee.
- Use grass fed or ghee butter or or tallow.
- But what I did is I did my usual wash with this towel and then I used the tallow and ash stuff on this towel.
Examples
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Franklin's father changed his trade to "a Tallow Chandler and Soap-Boiler."
Academic text (2016) -
Lubrication in the form of animal fat or tallow is known to have been used, although the exact composition has not been determined.
Academic text (2004) -
So they would literally put the beef into the tallow just like this.
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Burn like a living tallow candle.
Fiction book (1991) -
Fifth man gets the hide and the tallow.
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I have rendered beef fat for tallow, but not tried pork.
Blog text (17) -
And so if you have really, really dry skin and, and get aged and weathered skin, you want to get tallow or beef tallow.
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My brother Long Chase returned hours later with enough buffalo meat, tallow, and winter hides to last us through the winter.
Fiction book (1994) -
Sara had lit a tallow dip and was at the table washing dishes in a basin.
Fiction book (1997) -
The artisan crafted beautiful candles using tallow from sheep fat.
Synonyms
1
4.6
Melted fat from cows used in cooking and soap making
Fat from an adult sheep used for cooking, soap, and candles
Compounds
- Archaic
A yellowish wax from the berries of some sumac trees used in polishes and candles
- Specialized
An animal oil from pressed fat that lubricates machines and helps make soap
How Solid
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tallow comes from an old English word for fat, meaning 'fat' or 'grease'. So, tallow is the hard animal fat people used to make candles, soap, and lubricants, which makes the origin easy to remember.