[Sca-cooks] stewing chickens?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
>From Jadwiga:
>>Hen in Broth
>>Stewing Chicken, 6.9 lb, cut up.
>Chickens I can get in the store but I don't think I've ever seen 
>them labeled as "stewing chicken", although perhaps I just haven't 
>noticed. So, for this use, what should I look for?

Sometimes known as a baking chicken or hen. Generic "fowl", in 
marketing terms, are, as far as I can tell, even older, stringier, 
and significantly smaller than those labelled "baking chicken".

You might also, if you're relying on the supermarket, see if they 
have any Kosher chickens (I mean, where does Kinky Friedman shop?) -- 
I'm pretty sure Empire packs and sells a baking hen.

You might also simply ask the guy in charge of putting the meat on 
the plastic trays and covering them with plastic wrap, the artist 
formerly known as the butcher ;-).

Feel better...

Adamantius
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