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Skriven 2008-10-23 16:20:30 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Drum
Ärende: Re: Scalding pigs
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Hey Dave!
-> 
->  -> BTW - you remove the last of the hairs from the pig the same way you
->  -> remove the pin feathers from a chooken - with fire. A devine odour.
-> 
->  hn> I don't remember then burning the pig with fire.
->  hn> I do remember hauling wood to feed the big fire
->  hn> under the cauldron. and chunks of coal too.
-> 
-> We used, depending on whose farm we were using for the butchering, 
various
-> things from a plumbers blow lamp (blowtorch) to a simple Bernz-O-Matic 
propane
-> torch to a more elabourate kerosene fired weed burner that my 
grandfather had
-> "rescued" from his days working on the railroad.
-> 
I'm sure they probably did it, but I 
don't remember it. I only remembered 
the "fun" parts or the parts that I 
got to participate in. Mostly we kids
were kept at a safe distance from
the most fun and dangerous parts
of the operation (grin).

-> I always imagined that the weed-burner was a John Wayne flame thrower 
burning
-> down the enemies pouring out the caves on some South Pacific movie 
island.
-> 
-> To singe the pin feathers of the chookens we generally used the laundry 
stove
-> (remember those) on which the tub of water had been heated. Pop the 
round lid
-> off one of the burner locations on the top and rotate the chicken over the
-> flames in the stove. Alternatively, my mother used the front burner of our 
gas
-> stove in the kitchen.
-> 
We had a different technique. On the 
back porch was the "summer kitchen" which
was right off the inside kitchen. The 
summer kitchen had a huge iron 
woodburning cookstove and they'd
melt a big pot of water and toss
wax into it (beeswax from the hives).
When it was melted we'd dip the 
plucked chickens, ducks, geese
etc, into it and hang them up
to let them cool and harden.
Then you simply peel off the 
wax and it takes all the 
remaining feathers, down, and
quills with it. when you 
"peel" the birds you put
the wax back in the pot
and when you're done you pour 
it through a screen to get all the
bits out and let it harden for next time. 
Works great!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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