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Using Chicken Feet when making Chicken Stock

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Christine Dabney

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Sep 14, 2001, 3:48:50 PM9/14/01
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Hello all,

Okay..I have made chicken stock many, many times before...but I have never added
chicken feet .....
I am making stock with a stewing hen...and decided to make it with chicken feet
as well this time....
I got a package of them at the Asian market yesterday..and they have about 18 of
them in there...
My question is this...how many is too many to add? Do I add all of them? or
just a few to get the benefits of them?

Christine

Melba's Jammin'

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Sep 14, 2001, 5:12:33 PM9/14/01
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In article <hjn4qto6dno88m61d...@4ax.com>, Christine
Dabney <arti...@home.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Okay..I have made chicken stock many, many times before...but I have
> never added chicken feet ..... I am making stock with a stewing
> hen...and decided to make it with chicken feet as well this time....
> I got a package of them at the Asian market yesterday..and they have
> about 18 of them in there... My question is this...how many is too
> many to add?


All you have +1.


> Do I add all of them? or just a few to get the benefits of them?
> Christine

Live it up!! Use all of them. That stock'll wiggle like two pigs
f****** in a burlap bag!
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PENMART01

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Sep 14, 2001, 5:58:39 PM9/14/01
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In article <hjn4qto6dno88m61d...@4ax.com>, Christine Dabney
<arti...@home.com> writes:


Add em all. Like what'll you do with them otherwise.


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Christine Dabney

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Sep 14, 2001, 6:09:11 PM9/14/01
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On 14 Sep 2001 21:58:39 GMT, penm...@aol.como (PENMART01) wrote:


>Add em all. Like what'll you do with them otherwise.

Freeze the rest of them to use later on down the road..in making more stock?
:)

Christine

PENMART01

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Sep 14, 2001, 6:41:59 PM9/14/01
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In article <avv4qt4ue6oilibvp...@4ax.com>, Christine Dabney
<arti...@home.com> writes:

>(PENMART01) wrote:
>
>
>>Add em all. Like what'll you do with them otherwise.
>
>Freeze the rest of them to use later on down the road..in making more stock?

That's ok if you believe there'll be no more chickens with feet.

Jill McQuown

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Sep 14, 2001, 6:51:50 PM9/14/01
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"PENMART01" <penm...@aol.como> wrote in message
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Now *that* reminds me of an old Farside cartoon: the boneless chicken ranch
LOL

Jill

Arri London

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Sep 14, 2001, 8:47:18 PM9/14/01
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Try maybe six of them... they can make a stock gelatinous
sometimes.

zxcvbob

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Sep 14, 2001, 10:05:19 PM9/14/01
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My mother and her sister still like to occasionally tease my grandmother
about the time she made Chicken Foot Soup. She put too many chicken
feet in the kettle, and she tried to serve the soup *with the feet*. It
gelled, and had those still identifiable chicken feet in there,
wiggling. They raised chickens at the time and knew what chickens
stepped in. Nobody would eat the soup.

I have a perverse desire to try to duplicate it, but I don't have a lot
of details...

Best regards,
Bob

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"He's not responsible for what he's doin'
Cuz his mother made him what he is."
--Ray Wylie Hubbard

Curly Sue

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Sep 14, 2001, 11:10:34 PM9/14/01
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:05:19 -0500, zxcvbob <b...@a51web.net> wrote:

>My mother and her sister still like to occasionally tease my grandmother
>about the time she made Chicken Foot Soup. She put too many chicken
>feet in the kettle, and she tried to serve the soup *with the feet*. It
>gelled, and had those still identifiable chicken feet in there,
>wiggling. They raised chickens at the time and knew what chickens
>stepped in. Nobody would eat the soup.

>I have a perverse desire to try to duplicate it, but I don't have a lot
>of details...

ROFL!

My brother's philosphy is similar- "I don't want to eat anything
that's walked through chicken sh*t."

(Every time I see this subject heading, I want to say "Now, make sure
to clean under the toenails.")

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

sue at interport dotnet

Thierry Gerbault

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Sep 15, 2001, 4:19:04 AM9/15/01
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:48:50 GMT in article
<hjn4qto6dno88m61d...@4ax.com>, Christine Dabney
graciously offered...

Considering that when most people made stock using whole chickens they
used perhaps 1 or 2 chickens, I would think 2 or 4 feet would do.
Freeze the rest.
--
Thierry Gerbault

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"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.

Barrie Mather

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Sep 15, 2001, 4:30:07 AM9/15/01
to Christine Dabney


I don't see any reason why you shouldn't make stock with chickens feet
and vegetables only if you want to. Certainly chook feet as an
ingredient would be OK.
The next trick to learn is how to make the feet crispy so that you can
eat them - rather like pigskin. Remember to nip off the claws before you
start eating

Barrie

Miche

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Sep 15, 2001, 6:04:17 AM9/15/01
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In article <3ba2c5a7...@news.rcn.com>, s...@addressin.sig (Curly
Sue) wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:05:19 -0500, zxcvbob <b...@a51web.net> wrote:
>
> >My mother and her sister still like to occasionally tease my grandmother
> >about the time she made Chicken Foot Soup. She put too many chicken
> >feet in the kettle, and she tried to serve the soup *with the feet*. It
> >gelled, and had those still identifiable chicken feet in there,
> >wiggling. They raised chickens at the time and knew what chickens
> >stepped in. Nobody would eat the soup.
>
> >I have a perverse desire to try to duplicate it, but I don't have a lot
> >of details...
>
> ROFL!
>
> My brother's philosphy is similar- "I don't want to eat anything
> that's walked through chicken sh*t."

Does he eat eggs?

Miche

Melba's Jammin'

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Sep 15, 2001, 8:12:27 AM9/15/01
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In article <3ba2c5a7...@news.rcn.com>, s...@addressin.sig (Curly
Sue) wrote:
(snippage)

>
> ROFL!
>
> My brother's philosphy is similar- "I don't want to eat anything
> that's walked through chicken sh*t."
>
> (Every time I see this subject heading, I want to say "Now, make sure
> to clean under the toenails.")
>
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!
>
> sue at interport dotnet

There's an outer layer of skin on the feeties that pulls off just like a
glove. And you DO wash them before cooking, donchaknow? <grin>.

"Mama, I dropped my gum in the chickenyard. But it's ok; I found it!!"
"Uffda!"

Curly Sue

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Sep 15, 2001, 9:07:20 AM9/15/01
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On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:04:17 +1200, Miche <mi...@technologist.com>
wrote:

Q: Is there any nutritional value in it?
A: No, he doesn't eat it.

MH

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Sep 16, 2001, 10:47:34 AM9/16/01
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zxcvbob <b...@a51web.net> wrote in message
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>
>
> My mother and her sister still like to occasionally tease my grandmother
> about the time she made Chicken Foot Soup. She put too many chicken
> feet in the kettle, and she tried to serve the soup *with the feet*. It
> gelled, and had those still identifiable chicken feet in there,
> wiggling. They raised chickens at the time and knew what chickens
> stepped in. Nobody would eat the soup.
>
> I have a perverse desire to try to duplicate it, but I don't have a lot
> of details...
>
I've had both chicken feet and duck feet in a pricey Chinese restaurant
before (Hong Kong Flower Lounge). Both were good, although I liked the
chicken feet more.

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