Kidney Suet vs Lard?

[ncage1974]

Is Kidney suet pretty much identical to lard. A guy at work brought his chili today and it was awesome. He gave me the recipe but it calls for kidney suet. I was thinking of replacing with lard but i have no idea if they are essentially the same thing. If not and if its going to make a big difference they how would i go about looking for it?

thanks,
ncage

 

[Steve Kroll]

If you were to render down beef kidney suet, you would have tallow. Lard is rendered pork kidney fat. So they are effectively the same thing, but from different animals. From a cooking perspective, I would say they are pretty much interchangeable.