[Sca-cooks] Re: chicken plucking

[Devra at aol.com]

Just to throw a spanner in the works :-)  Among Orthodox Jews, you do not scald the bird; you pluck it dry. I have never done this, but my own dear mother described it to me (uck) including the disgusting feeling of the little chicken fleas that would get onto you as you plucked.  These dry-plucked feathers would of course be used for stuffing things--waste not, want not.
Devra (who's relieved she doesn't have to pluck it)