Making Tallow

[Kurt]

Kurt,
How did you get the fat?? Will the shop in Valentine set it aside for you? Sounds like something I'd like to do.

I'm still debating keeping the hide. No one locally wants to mess with it.

Gus I told them to save the hard fat and also the hump bones for my flint knapping tools. I forgot to pick up the leg bones for making a big billet.

I was going to save the hide and brain tan it, but changed my mind because it would be pretty ripe before I got home and It would be hard to get enough hog or chicken brains together to get the job done. I just didn't have enough room in my jeep for everything.
Just tell Martin you want the fat and they will save it.
The Bison fat is really good stuff. I ran it through my Chard #12 meat grinder first to get the most out of it when rendering it down. At clean up the plated where so slick I could not pick them up.
Good stuff.

Kurt

Kurt