isak on fri 22 sep 00
Thats right, thats an old custom in Sweden to make chicken in clay.
Back in the old days when the large pott- and brick-factorys where =
firing with wood
in huge kilns, the men that worked with the kilns for 3-5 days where =
drinking lots of=20
brannvin (like Tequila) beer and made chicken that way. It takes about =
2-5 hours to cook
a chicken and i think that=B4s one of the reasons that Swedish ceramics =
are great......
-If it was because of the chicken or the alcohol, i=B4m not the one to =
tell, but it shure
was more "partying" before we invented electric, computerized kilns.
-Anyone have more recepies? Not glazes this time... FOOD!
All the best
Isak Isaksson
Velamsund
SE-132 36 Salts-Boo=20
(Sweden)
Phone (+46 8 ) 747 97 21
www.swedcrafts.nu
isak@swedcrafts.nu
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Fr=E5n: Kurt Wild
Till:
Skickat: den 22 september 2000 17:54
=C4mne: Cooking chicken in clay
> Just heard the following on Wisconsin public radio and wondered if =
anyone
> has tried it. Could be a possibility for Hay Creek or wood firing =
gatherings.
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> The following is, to the best of my ability, what I heard:
> Take a fresh chicken and wrap it feathers, innards and all in clay. =
Set it
> in a fire pit , build up coals around it and cook it (how long?). =
When you
> think it's cooked, break away the clay and the feathers will all come =
right
> off. Inside the innards will have balled up, that is, shrunk up =
into a
> ball. Apparently the next step is shear enjoyment.
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> Kurt
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> email: KURT.L.WILD@uwrf.edu
> website: http://wwwpp.uwrf.edu/~kw77
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