November 10, 2011

• PREPPING

  We got a ham on sale for 1.49 per pound.  I first cut off 3 pretty good ham steaks and put them in the freezer.   I trimmed the meat from the bone and used it to can 7 quarts of ham and bean soup.  There was another 2 quarts that we froze.  I put the fat away to render later to make lye soap.  I took the meaty bone and fed it to our chickens.
  
  I also bought 10 pounds of chicken legs @59 cents per pound.  I removed the skin, bones and cartilage and canned 4 pints of chicken meat.  Then I took the offal, threw in onion and celery, added water and canned 7 quarts of chicken stock.   I threw the bones, skin, etc. into the composter.  Feeding chicken scraps to the chickens just didn’t seem right.

  • 11:29 am
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