Re: Playing with milk fat
- From: Alan S <loralgtweightandcarbs@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:07:13 +1100
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:42:54 +0000, Nicky
<ukc802466929@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 13 Dec 2008 01:27:48 GMT, Chris Malcolm <cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The tastiest chickens I've ever eaten weren't chickens, they were old
free range egg-laying hens who'd got too old to pay their way with
eggs. So they were big, and tough, and had to be cooked for hours. But
they were both very cheap (because people today don't like cooking for
hours) and extraordinarily tasty! They turned up occasionally in a
butcher I used to visit.
Envy... we have friends who keep about 50 chickens for egg-laying, but
BURY them once they die... I keep offering to take 'em away a little
before that, but it falls on deaf ears...
When I grew up we kept chooks down the backyard. Those were
known as "old boilers".
The term was literally apt because that is what happened to
those chooks when egg-laying days were over. Dad lopped off
their heads with an axe on the stump reserved for that
purpose down the back-yard. Mum dipped them in boiling
water in a bucket to loosen the feathers, then plucked them
and cleaned out the innards. Then they were simmered in a
big post until tender before being roasted in the oven.
Delicious. I don't recall Mum ever buying a "chicken" in a
shop. Also, chicken was a term we reserved for
pre-egg-laying chooks; when TV arrived we wondered if chooks
were a lot bigger in America to get sufficient meat off a
chicken for a meal. It was an occasional special treat for
us when another old boiler reached her second usefulness.
The term was also used for post-menopausal females in those
pre-PC days in Oz:-)
Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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