Tallow

Beef tallow

Tallow is a type of rendered fat. It can come from beef or mutton. It usually has a longer shelf life than suet. Tallow could also come from other animals like bison. Lard is a type of tallow that comes from pigs. Tallow has been used for many things, as a soap ingredient, a cooking fat, and fuel.

Tallow is mostly made up of saturated and monounsaturated fats and triglycerides.

Tallow Media

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  Tallow made by rendering calf suet

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  Tallow consists mainly of triglycerides (fat), whose major constituents are derived from stearic and oleic acids.

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  An 1883 ad soliciting tallow from butchers and graziers for soap production in the Hawaii newspaper The Daily Bulletin

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  Six tallow candles; circular, yellow, with conical top