Home-Canned Chicken and Ways to Use It, Part 1

Reader Contribution by Susan Gregersen
Published on July 27, 2015
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After filling jars with delicious foods it’s sometimes hard to find ways to use them. Last year, we raised and butchered 75 chickens. We have favorite ways to use it, such as chicken & dumplings, chicken pot pie, and chicken chunk gravy over mashed potatoes. But when you stare at more than 70 quarts of chicken in the pantry you start wishing you had more ideas for using it.

It begins with cooking the chicken. I boil the whole chickens in my five-gallon kettles for about an hour. While the chickens boil I round up jars and make sure they‘re clean, and get out lids and rings. I simmer the lids in a small sauce pan.

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