Mum’s recipe sees butcher dripping in honours

It was mum’s the word when a Tipperary butcher’s beef dripping won the supreme champion award at the Great Tastes Awards.

“It’s my mother’s recipe,” fifth-generation butcher Pat Whelan of James Whelan Butchers from Clonmel said.

The dripping, produced from the suet of grass-fed Angus and Hereford cattle, beat some 10,000 entries from Ireland and Britain to take the top accolade.