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Are you ready to brush up your dermatological English? It is our very great pleasure to present the fifty third English corner based on “Tallow”. Don’t forget you can use a dictionary to help you with the text, and of course, you should visit our website at http://anglaismedical.u-bourgogne.fr/ to work on your pronunciation or build your medical vocabulary. The site also includes a talking dictionary, medical videos, exercises, clinical cases, words and expressions for specialists…
‘Tallow’1or ‘suet’, more easily understood as ‘beef fat’ has been used throughout2 history to make soap3 or candles4, and for cooking. Famous British delights5, like suet pudding, or the more sophisticated form called spotted dick6 (suet pudding with currants7 and sultanas8), were very popular among schoolchildren up and down9 the country. And who among you has never enjoyed a serving10 of Christmas pudding with custard11? All of these are traditionally made with suet. Fish ’n’ chips, another mainstay12 of British culinary heritage, used to be deep fried13 in lard14, a mixture of animal fats15. The use of animal fat for cooking declined in the 70s and 80s when the supposed artery-clogging16 properties came to light17. Tallow contains a high proportion of saturated fats, the kind that increase levels18 of LDL, commonly called ‘bad cholesterol’, even though19 it is essential for good health. These dietary animal fats have been replaced by seed oils20 avocado oil, olive oil etc…