Cooking Fats and Pantry Guide
Beef tallow, lard and gelatin were the backbone of the Canadian kitchen before seed oils arrived. Tallow fries at high heat without smoking, lard makes the flakiest pie pastry, and gelatin sets everything from bone broth to gummies.
This guide collects our articles on cooking fats, the research on seed oils versus animal fats, and the Quebec recipes that use them, from tourtière pastry to homemade gummies.
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Tallow explained, where to buy it in Canada, and the seed oil question.
- Grass-Fed Beef Tallow: The Ancestral Cooking Fat
- Beef Tallow in Canada: Cooking, Skincare and Where to Buy
- Best Beef Tallow in Canada (2026)
- Beef Tallow at Costco Canada
- Where to Buy Pemmican in Canada
- Best Bone Broth in Canada
- Beef Tallow vs Ghee vs Butter
- Suet vs Tallow
- Beef tallow nutrition facts
- Lard nutrition facts
- Beef tallow vs lard
- Beef suet nutrition facts
- Gelatin nutrition facts
- Egg white powder nutrition facts
- Lard vs Butter vs Shortening for Pie Crust
- Seed Oils vs Animal Fats: What the Research Shows
- Bone Marrow: The Ancestral Fat You Were Built to Eat
Gelatin, protein and the old kitchen
Gelatin versus collagen, egg white protein and what breakfast used to look like.
- Bovine Gelatin: What It Is and How to Use It
- Gelatin vs Collagen: Which One and When
- Best Grass-Fed Beef Gelatin in Canada (2026)
- How to Use Beef Gelatin Powder
- Great Lakes Gelatin in Canada
- Organika Bovine Gelatin Review
- Knox Gelatine vs Grass-Fed Beef Gelatin
- Vital Proteins Beef Gelatin in Canada
- Great Lakes vs Vital Proteins Beef Gelatin
- Jay Robb Egg White Protein Review (Canada)
- Best Made in Canada Protein Powder
- Christmas Gifts for Carnivores (Canada)
- Cleanest Protein Powder for Women in Canada
- Best Unflavoured Protein Powder in Canada
- Where to Buy Lard in Canada
- Tenderflake Lard Ingredients: BHA, BHT and Hydrogenation
- Egg White Protein vs Whey
- Cleanest Protein Powders in Canada (2026)
- Where to Buy Egg White Protein Powder in Canada
- Best Egg White Protein Powder in Canada (2026)
- Whole Egg Powder vs Egg White Powder
- How to Use Powdered Eggs (Conversion Chart)
- Where to Buy Powdered Eggs in Canada
- NOW Egg White Protein in Canada
- Egg White Protein in Canada: What Reddit Says
- Dairy-Free Protein Powder in Canada
- Single-Ingredient Protein Powder in Canada
- How to Use Egg White Powder
- Naked Egg Protein in Canada
- Muskoka Mornings No Yolking Review
- Are Egg Whites Dairy?
- Protein Didn’t Used to Come in a Wrapper
- Your Great-Grandmother’s Kitchen: What Changed in One Lifetime
- What Breakfast Looked Like in 1900
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Shop →Recipes from the Quebec kitchen
Every recipe uses one of these pantry staples. Each one is also available in French.
- Traditional Quebec Tourtière with Lard Pastry
- Tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean (Deep-Dish Meat Pie)
- Quebec Tourtière with Millet
- Traditional Quebec Cipaille
- Slow Cooker Meatball Stew (Ragoût de Boulettes)
- Soft Old-Fashioned Molasses Cookies
- All-Lard Pie Pastry
- Old-Fashioned Quebec Sugar Pie
- Potato Doughnuts Fried in Lard
- Homemade Graisse de Rôti
- Beef Tallow Fries
- Suet Cakes for Winter Birds
- Homemade Marshmallows
- How to Render Beef Tallow
- How to Make Whipped Tallow Balm
- Crispy Beef Tallow Roast Potatoes
- Butter Tarts with Lard Pastry
- Pan-Fried Bannock
- Grilled Beef Heart
- Beef Kidneys in Mustard Sauce
- Homemade Cretons (Quebec Pork Spread)
- Veal Cretons
- Head Cheese Without the Head
- Old-Fashioned Baked Beans with Lard
- Slow Cooker Maple Baked Beans
- Homemade Pemmican with Grass-Fed Beef Tallow
- Slow-Simmered Beef Bone Broth
- Homemade Fruit Gummies with Grass-Fed Gelatin
- High-Protein Pancakes with Egg White Protein
- High-Protein Waffles
- Blueberry Protein Muffins
- Chocolate Protein Mug Cake
- Apple Cider Vinegar Gummies
- Vanilla Panna Cotta
- Calf or Beef Liver with Onions
- Air Fryer Beef Liver and Onions
- Homemade Liver Pâté
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Shop →Related guides: the beef liver guide, the organ meats guide and the colostrum guide. Browse all recipes.
