tips on making a traditional Beef Wellington?

[bobbin]

The best pie crust in the world is made with lard (suet).  It's light, flakey, and absolutely delicious.  I use 2 butter knives to cut it into the flour, the moisten it with an egg and enough water to =make the dough workable. 

I adore Christmas Pudding (made with suet), it's rich, smooth, and absolutely delicious.  Serve with Hard Sauce.  Mum used to make it and it was steamed in a shaped melon mould that belonged to my great-great-grandmother who was Scottish.  And they say the British Isles have no real gastronomic contributions!   ;)

(never did get to try Spotted Dick when I was in your beautiful country)

[gene]

Wow. Such different cultures. The only suet we have ever had in our house is the suet with seeds in it that my wife buys to hang on a tree to feed the birds. (I think she is actually feeding the cats and our neighborhood hawk.)

gene

[fragged8]

heh you haven't lived until you've had a spotted Dick inside you  :o :o

A lot of our old fashioned winter food like puddings and pies
are designed to plump up a body for the winter chill and provide
lots of calories for people who worked in hard manual jobs

These days you just couldn't eat lots and lots of that kind of food
it would make you as big as a house hehe.. Mainly because
we just don't do the physical exercise our ancestors did to burn off
the calories.

This is making me really hungry for a really good steak and kidney pudding
with suet pastry heheh

Tonight for dinner the wife made a Gypsy Tart .. ohh err.

is basically a flan base with a tin of Evaporated milk whisked up
and poured on top, you then cook it for about 20 mins and leave to cool.

it tastes like caramel but very very sweet

It's an old school dinner recipe

[Grebo]

Rich behave you will frighten these good people  ;D

My old man makes a wicked Phia Thai dish.
He's designated cook at the weekends.... Bliss.....

Don't mention suet to me, I had an infestation of tiny moths then discovered the suet was alive with grubs  :o


Suzi

[SteveMoke]

Rich ... are you Frankie howard reincarnated  :D

[Darren Henry]

Suet is basically fat June, you can make some fantastic
suet puddings with it either savoury or sweet fillings
and you can either bake or steam it

The biggest call for it in my 'hood is as an attative to ground venison.if there is any fat on your white tailed deer it can be gamey, so we trim the hamburger lean and top it up with pork suet.