Caul fat, also known as lace fat, omentum, or fat netting, is the thin

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which surrounds the internal organs of some animals, such as cows,

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, and pigs, also known as the

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in anatomy textbooks. It is used as a casing for

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s, roulades,

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s, and various other meat dishes. Examples of such dishes are Vietnamese ,

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, French , Cypriot , South African ,

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s, Serbian and , and Italian . In the traditional Ukrainian and Russian cuisine, caul fat, known as or , was usually filled with and

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, and baked in a clay pot in the Russian oven. The Navajo people of the Southwestern United States wrap sheep intestines around strips of caul fat to make a dish called .

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