05-11-2009, 06:52 PM
To make proper chicken soup you need two chickens. You use the broth from an old hen for flavor and the meat from a young rooster for texture. Also, when using homestead chickens, put them in salt water at least overnight in the refrigerator to tenderize them. An overnight cold saltwater soak will get an old hen so you can at least gnaw it into pieces. A pressure cooker can also be deployed in the quest for tender chicken. I usually boil the carcass until the meat just about falls off the bones. Then make it into kalua chicken which gets used in all sorts of things, sandwiches, tacos, omelets, pot pie, etc.
Do you need a recipe for your disaster menu, Centipede? My neighbor has some really old recipes which were used when her family was short on edibles during, I believe it was the Great Depression.
There are a lot of reasons why that hen is standoffish. She could be keeping her distance because she is a standoffish breed of chicken, because she wasn't socialized as a chick, because she wants to mess with your head or because she can see those chicken soup recipes lurking somewhere nearby? Chickens have to be trained to be friendly, they don't naturally want to hang around with humans.
Is that chicken usually with the flock when the flock isn't around you? She may not be an official part of the flock, which means it is going to be standoffish from everyone, you and the chickens. Some birds are just never integrated into the flock even if they are all in the same spot. There is also a huge pecking order of who gets to eat first and who gets to push who around. Your standoffish chicken may just be the bottom chicken in the pecking order.
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Kurt Wilson
Do you need a recipe for your disaster menu, Centipede? My neighbor has some really old recipes which were used when her family was short on edibles during, I believe it was the Great Depression.
There are a lot of reasons why that hen is standoffish. She could be keeping her distance because she is a standoffish breed of chicken, because she wasn't socialized as a chick, because she wants to mess with your head or because she can see those chicken soup recipes lurking somewhere nearby? Chickens have to be trained to be friendly, they don't naturally want to hang around with humans.
Is that chicken usually with the flock when the flock isn't around you? She may not be an official part of the flock, which means it is going to be standoffish from everyone, you and the chickens. Some birds are just never integrated into the flock even if they are all in the same spot. There is also a huge pecking order of who gets to eat first and who gets to push who around. Your standoffish chicken may just be the bottom chicken in the pecking order.
Kurt Wilson
Kurt Wilson