May 28 2018
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butcher,
soap,
tallow
How to render fat using a slow cooker to make tallow for cooking or soapmaking.
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Oct 31 2017
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beef,
butcher,
real food,
tallow,
tanning
Every year around winter-time we have one of our home-raised steers butchered at our property by a mobile a butcher. We fill the freezer with meat, bones and tallow, and we sometimes even keep the hide for tanning. It is very important to us that, as far as possible, we use the whole beast. If this is something that you would to do too, here are a list of posts that you may find useful.
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Jan 26 2015
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handmade,
natural soap,
soap,
tallow
A review of Jan Berry's book "Natural Soapmaking" with a couple of my own natural handmade tallow soap recipes designed from tips I learnt from the book.
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Oct 17 2014
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soap,
tallow
I was very pleased to figure out how to make soap from 100% beef tallow. Let me explain why this was so important to me and how it is done.
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Apr 29 2013
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cleaning,
soap,
tallow
When I first learnt to make soap, was taught to follow a simple recipe using tallow, olive oil and coconut oil, with the cold process method. We used that soap in the bath and in a soap shaker for doing the dishes, and its surprising how fast we use it, so it was time to make some more, this is how I came up with two simple recipes for tallow soap.
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Jan 23 2013
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self sufficiency,
soap,
tallow
For some reason I've always thought that making soap seemed too hard. For a start the number of ingredients required was confusing and all the safety warnings about using the alkali put me off. The worst part for me was...
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