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>> When my kids were small and I was poor and struggling, I'd make entire
>> pots of chicken soup with nothing but backs, necks and giblets.
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> My mother was greatly distressed when they stopped leaving a bag of
> giblets in frozen chicken. So presumably she used them in our soups too


What? That's a sacrilege! Gotta have the giblets. :-)

Cheri

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>>> When my kids were small and I was poor and struggling, I'd make
>>> entire pots of chicken soup with nothing but backs, necks and
>>> giblets.
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>> My mother was greatly distressed when they stopped leaving a bag of
>> giblets in frozen chicken. So presumably she used them in our soups
>> too
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> What? That's a sacrilege! Gotta have the giblets. :-)
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> Cheri

The modern generation seemed to shun them. When we used to slaughter our
own chooks not a part of them got wasted (except for the feathers...)

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>>>> When my kids were small and I was poor and struggling, I'd make entire
>>>> pots of chicken soup with nothing but backs, necks and giblets.
>>>
>>> My mother was greatly distressed when they stopped leaving a bag of
>>> giblets in frozen chicken. So presumably she used them in our soups too
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>> What? That's a sacrilege! Gotta have the giblets. :-)
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>> Cheri
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> The modern generation seemed to shun them. When we used to slaughter our
> own chooks not a part of them got wasted (except for the feathers...)

Us too. Mostly raised on a chicken/turkey ranch, lots of drop craws with the
young turkeys, so we used them as fryers, all of them...except as you say,
the feathers. Back in those days the folks would let us kids have a few
turkeys to clean and sell at Thanksgiving. Course, you couldn't do that now,
but we made some spending money that way. I hated all that candling,
milking, sheep shearing and stuff as a kid, but it seems nice in nostalgia.
:-)

Cheri

was just discussing this with a df, her grandmother used to somehow clean
the feathers to make pillows and bed batting with... she doesn't remember,
but she lolled when she said it popped into her head the hoter day and she
was trying to figure how she cleaned them and they didn't stink.

My sister has started skinning her chickens whn she slaughters so it goes
quicker, the skin isn't there to tempt and smells less nasty,
Lee
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>>>> When my kids were small and I was poor and struggling, I'd make entire
>>>> pots of chicken soup with nothing but backs, necks and giblets.
>>>
>>> My mother was greatly distressed when they stopped leaving a bag of
>>> giblets in frozen chicken. So presumably she used them in our soups too
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>> What? That's a sacrilege! Gotta have the giblets. :-)
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>> Cheri
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> The modern generation seemed to shun them. When we used to slaughter our
> own chooks not a part of them got wasted (except for the feathers...)

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> was just discussing this with a df, her grandmother used to somehow
> clean the feathers to make pillows and bed batting with... she doesn't
> remember, but she lolled when she said it popped into her head the
> hoter day and she was trying to figure how she cleaned them and they
> didn't stink.
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> My sister has started skinning her chickens whn she slaughters so it
> goes quicker, the skin isn't there to tempt and smells less nasty,

My grandmother possibly did. She was born in the early 1890's, didn't
have a house with anything but a dirt floor for many, many years and
made boy's pants out of grain sacks! I cringe when I think what that
must have felt like against the skin.

my mother is 73 years old, she lived in a house with a dirt floor until she
was ten, my grandparents didn't get indor plumbing until 1968 or so, all of
their underclothes and femine products were sewn from flour and sugar sack
cloth, very poor but well fed, Lee
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>> was just discussing this with a df, her grandmother used to somehow clean
>> the feathers to make pillows and bed batting with... she doesn't
>> remember, but she lolled when she said it popped into her head the hoter
>> day and she was trying to figure how she cleaned them and they didn't
>> stink.
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>> My sister has started skinning her chickens whn she slaughters so it goes
>> quicker, the skin isn't there to tempt and smells less nasty,
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> My grandmother possibly did. She was born in the early 1890's, didn't have
> a house with anything but a dirt floor for many, many years and made boy's
> pants out of grain sacks! I cringe when I think what that must have felt
> like against the skin.

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> my mother is 73 years old, she lived in a house with a dirt floor
> until she was ten, my grandparents didn't get indor plumbing until
> 1968 or so, all of their underclothes and femine products were sewn
> from flour and sugar sack cloth, very poor but well fed, Lee

We have come a long way

IN the late 50's I become aware of certain things on the line every few
weeks. I eventually became aware that they were terry pieces of rag my
mum used each month. My sister is 16 years older than me and I remember
a bit of hoohah when her eldest daughter became a young teenager and
started using stick on pads (as opposed to the old style attached to a
strap) I wasn't around for the time she started tampons, lol. My
mother and sister eventually succumbed to modern day products

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>>> was just discussing this with a df, her grandmother used to somehow
>>> clean the feathers to make pillows and bed batting with... she
>>> doesn't remember, but she lolled when she said it popped into her
>>> head the hoter day and she was trying to figure how she cleaned them
>>> and they didn't stink.
>>>
>>> My sister has started skinning her chickens whn she slaughters so it
>>> goes quicker, the skin isn't there to tempt and smells less nasty,
>>
>> My grandmother possibly did. She was born in the early 1890's, didn't
>> have a house with anything but a dirt floor for many, many years and
>> made boy's pants out of grain sacks! I cringe when I think what that
>> must have felt like against the skin.
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>

my grandmother would sew a pad that looked similar in shape to the modern
day ones but they had a tab on each end to pen to the underwear or later a
belt... they had cotton sewn and quilted, then my grandmother would boil
them in lye soap. sounds hidious but it seems everyone survived it... odd
to think of talkng of what my mom used as a young girl and now i don't need
any of that sort of thing anymore, lol, Lee
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>> my mother is 73 years old, she lived in a house with a dirt floor until
>> she was ten, my grandparents didn't get indor plumbing until 1968 or so,
>> all of their underclothes and femine products were sewn from flour and
>> sugar sack cloth, very poor but well fed, Lee
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> We have come a long way
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> IN the late 50's I become aware of certain things on the line every few
> weeks. I eventually became aware that they were terry pieces of rag my mum
> used each month. My sister is 16 years older than me and I remember a bit
> of hoohah when her eldest daughter became a young teenager and started
> using stick on pads (as opposed to the old style attached to a strap) I
> wasn't around for the time she started tampons, lol. My mother and sister
> eventually succumbed to modern day products
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>>>> was just discussing this with a df, her grandmother used to somehow
>>>> clean the feathers to make pillows and bed batting with... she doesn't
>>>> remember, but she lolled when she said it popped into her head the
>>>> hoter day and she was trying to figure how she cleaned them and they
>>>> didn't stink.
>>>>
>>>> My sister has started skinning her chickens whn she slaughters so it
>>>> goes quicker, the skin isn't there to tempt and smells less nasty,
>>>
>>> My grandmother possibly did. She was born in the early 1890's, didn't
>>> have a house with anything but a dirt floor for many, many years and
>>> made boy's pants out of grain sacks! I cringe when I think what that
>>> must have felt like against the skin.
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On 11/14/2011 10:02 PM, Ozgirl wrote:

> The modern generation seemed to shun them. When we used to slaughter our
> own chooks not a part of them got wasted (except for the feathers...)


No pillows? <vbg>

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.