Subj : Fresh Meat To : Ruth Haffly From : Dave Drum Date : Fri Jan 05 2024 06:28:10 -=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=- DD> If their butchers are truly butchers and not just "meat cutters" DD> they'll be able to take a side of (animal) and break it down to its DD> various cuts. Humphrey's buys "sides" of beef, whole hog carcasses, DD> etc. RH> Don't know, never looked into the back area. Most stupormarkups buy "primal cuts" - one step beyond what Humphrey's does. Examples of primals include the round, loin, rib, and chuck for beef or the ham, loin, Boston butt, and picnic for pork. DD> Magro's buys live, on the hoof animals and goes from there. RH> True butchers then. 8<----- NIPPED ----->8 RH> My dad was a white collar worker (local newspaper/free lance RH> photographer) so we didn't have any livestock except cats and dogs. I RH> have no idea how he got the chickens but there were a lot of them. DD> Did your family have to pluck the feathers and diembowel the chook? RH> Just singe the pin feathers, they were all plucked and dressed before RH> going into the freezer. After watching my grandmother fire up the laundry stove and put a tub of water on to heat, then dip the dewad chook in to hot water to loosen the feathers. And let me mother step in to help her pluck those feathers and get the bird ready to have the pin feathers seared by the fire in the laundry stove I made myself scarce on chicken plucking days. DD> I'm not sure there are any surviving "locker plants" since home DD> freezers and refrigerators have become so affordable. RH> There may be some in the Amish/Mennonite areas of the country--those RH> folks don't have electricity on their farms. Just used the Bing search to learn that there are 4 locker plants within 75 miles of me - the nearest being in a small town (all are small town located) about 40 miles away. All are butcher shops as well. DD> Amish, maybe. Mennonites are more modern. We have an Amish enclave DD> near to here (Arthur, IL) and marketroids often us "Amish made" as a DD> touchstone when sellin a whole range of things. RH> Usually a better quality than the average. We got intoduced to a new to RH> us Mennonite place last time we went thru Pennsylvania. Picked up RH> several kitchen tools, means to make cold brewed coffee, socks.... DD> I always thought a Monnonite was pretty much and Amish with a phone DD> and a car. Bv)= RH> There are some other differences but I'm not really sure on what's what RH> except that the Amish are the strictest in their separation from the RH> English of the various sects. They've modernised some, but still hold RH> to a lot of the old ways. Both Amish and Mennonitess have various RH> degrees of separation from the world but both maintain a strong RH> "apart-ness". I have to keep remembering that the Amish were the original "Pennsylvania Dutch". Which sort of explains a lot. MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06 Title: German Soup Balls Categories: Meatballs, Dairy, Soups Yield: 24 Meatballs 3 lb Soup meat 2 qt Water 4 lg Eggs 1 c Flour 2 tb Butter 1/2 ts Salt 1/2 c Milk Add the water to the soup meat, season to taste and cook slowly for several hours. A half hour before serving time, make soup balls as follows: combine the salt and flour and work in the butter. Beat the eggs and add to flour. Stir in the milk, using only enough to make batter thin enough to drop by spoon. Drop by spoonfuls into the boiling hot broth and cook for 10 minutes. Serve in hot soup at once. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old : Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936. From: http://www.recipesource.com Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives MMMMM .... "Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself" Jane Wagner --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200) .