Interesting that crackers are used as a thickening base, but I suppose flour would have been too valuable to use for that.
I thought she was going to skim the chicken fat with the ladle. Maybe chickens were far less fatty back then, it wouldn't surprise me with the feed diet and cooped up cage they are raised in now.
I've never avoided fat in all my life, never actually got fat. Not even close. Skim the fat? That's where flavor town is!
I'm not fat either, I don't skim to reduce calories. A little chicken fat is great for flavor but the typical quarter inch layer of fat floating on top of todays boiled whole chicken is way too much to leave in the soup, IMO. I'd gag on too much chicken fat, for me a little goes a long way. Also, in other chicken dishes, too much fat interferes with making a good gravy.
half an hour?
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Even the chickens were better educated back then than young adults are today. Most chickens could name at least four continents.
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