Photo credit: Unsplash Every year after St. Patrick’s Day, I end up standing in my kitchen staring at a pan of cooled cooking liquid and a thick cap of pale, waxy beef fat floating on top. It feels wrong to throw it away — especially when you remember that, to birds in late winter and early spring, that fat is pure survival food. Making homemade suet from corned beef trimmings or drippings is one of those deeply practical, old-fashioned skills that quietly connects your kitch

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