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Originally Posted by jadabug  My grandma used to slaughter hogs. I remember she didnt waste any of it. My most vivid memory is the head in a big tub sittin on her kitchen floor. She also fried the skin and made cracklings. I loved her crackling corn bread.
I remember another incident where she bought about 75 pullet hens and she chopped there heads off with an ax and threw a big wash tub over them so they wouldn't flop all over the yard  my job was to dip them into a big barrel of boiling water and pluck the feathers. It's a wonder I even like chicken now haha |
We were just talking about this with MIL the other night. I didn't know dipping them in boiling water helped with the feathers.