[Sca-cooks] chicken plucking

[Diana Skaggs]

At 02:06 PM 1/10/02 -0600, you wrote:
>What do you do if you don't have such a machine? And is this how
>it was done in period?

We always scalded the chickens in boiling water and plucked the feathers
off by hand after it was cool enough to handle.

>What do you do with all the resulting feathers? What did they do
>with them in period? I guess you could stuff pillows with them,
>but I imagine there are other nicer feathers for this. But maybe
>that just determined who would buy such items stuffed with
>chicken feathers.
>
>Thanks,
>  Stefan

We always threw the feathers away. Have you ever smelled a wet chicken? Ick!

Liadan