SC - Drying chicken meat

[Stefan li Rous]

Wajdi said:
> But, using a dehydrator, I can come up with a pretty mean
> chicken stem {stew]
> just by boiling the dried ingredients.  Chicken, rice, carrots, onion,
> beans, etc.

Sounds like a good idea. In fact, I've added one file to the FOOD
section of my Florilegium for just such a method:
drying-foods-msg  (27K)  8/24/98    Drying foods in period and for the SCA.

But how would you use the food dehydrator to dry chicken for this? Just
like what you do to make beef strips into beef jerky, without the 
seasoning? Do you shred or thin slice the chicken?

Does it re-hydrate well in the soup? Or do they end up being tough,
chewy pieces that sort of taste like chicken but feel like leather?

I would probably first just try canned chicken, but if drying chicken
meat does work this opens up some possiblities.
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