[Sca-cooks] Learn something new every day ;-)

[M. Traber]

Phlip wrote:

> Was soaking some chicken in salt water a bit ago, in preparation for
> packaging and freezing it, and since the regular salt vanished, I grabbed
> the Kosher salt. Got to reading the box, and discovered that my family's
> habit of salting the chicken before use was actually koshering it- never
> knew that before. We've always done it because it makes it taste better-
> gets all that nasty slaughtering plant taste and odor out of it. Wonder
> where my mother picked up the habit?
regular salt is on the edge of the cutting board behind the powdered garlic.

dont know, my mom does it, she learned  it from her mother. she is of 
amish stock moved to iowa in the 1800s.
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