[Sca-cooks] chicken plucking

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Mark.S Harris wrote:

>
> So, what did the medieval folks do with all those feathers?  I
> think as recently as the Vietnam War the US Army was using
> chicken feathers in their sleeping bags. So I imagine the medieval
> folks were doing something with them. They found uses for a lot of
> things that were seem to just throw out. Sometimes the reverse is
> true as well.

Mattress stuffing. I have a reference sitting around somewhere for
mattresses stuffed with feathers.

And isn't there a recipe that calls for coloring to be applied to the food
in question with a feather? We *just* discussed this one, too.


Margaret