morro

Where near Tavira can I buy beef suet?

Pulaski

Prepacked beef suet seems, in my experience (which I will admit, does not extend to Portugal), seems to be a peculiarly British product.

The easiest way to get beef suet is probably going to be to find a butcher and ask him for a chunk of the suet when he butchers a beef carcass, and then grate it yourself. Suet is the fat found around the loins and kidneys.

philat98

I ask for veal kidney fat. Its a lot better than the stuff that comes out of a packet. It has to be refrigerated though.

NataHH

I am sure I have seen Atora in Iceland but the nearest to you would be Guia which is a bid of a trek for you.

fergus

I was in the market at Olhao the other day and the butchers had odd sized blocks of fat. I presumed they were taken/cut from the animal when it was butchered. So I expect, if you visit a butcher at the market in Tavira, they may be able to help you.

GrahamF

British supermarket in Almancil has Atora but at silly price like everything else there.

macliam

.... but that doesn't stop people buying the British equivalents of perfectly good Portuguese products, does it? When I see imported butter, milk and bread for sale, I can't help wondering....

philat98

My butcher in Italy gives me the suet. I suspect it is the same in Portugal.

guesswork

Try Supermercado Alfresco at Conceiao de Tavira. They are just after Benamor Roundabout coming from Tavira. They sell British product

​​​​​​+351 967 195 619. They are on Fbook

Lugsbug

Hi Philat! Can you tell me how you ask for this in Italian, please? I tried a butcher in our town but couldn't make myself understood, Thank you!

philat98

I just asked for grasso di rognone. Strangely he understood straight away. He asked me if it was for human consumption. May be he would have taken it from a waste bin otherwise.

Pulaski

Interesting - and even Google translate translates "rognone" to "kidney", but "grasso di rognone" to "suet fat".

dmu

Hi, stepping in from the France forum.
Animal kidneys which you eat are "rognons" in French. The human kidney is a "rein", which seems to be "rene" in Italian.
I didn't realize this when I first came to France and had a bad back ("mal aux reins" in French). I informed the Doctor that I had "mal aux rognons"....
FWIW, suet pudding, dumplings and the like made from beef suet ("suif", not to be confused with "suie" (soot)), aren't usually eaten by the French, and, unless you buy Atora on-line, I suppose you could surprize a butcher by asking for some....