They pull the breast out and toss the rest. I can't do it. I watched a guy cut the breasts out of two nice pintails one morning and toss the rest into the water.
Alan
I simply cannot stand that type of thing.
Grandma & mum made simply beeeauuuutifulll giblet soup with the feet & all in it. But never did eat a beak. Grandma made specially sure we cut the heads off right up high to keep as much neck as possible.
Around here people catch the fresh water red claw crayfish & break out its tail then wash that in running water & cook only the tails.
I always cook the beasts whole & love the flavour of the yellow fat in the body & crack the claws & suck out the legs just as my family always did.
While doing this I have very little idea of where my cell phone is or what it is doing.
On the farm we used to do all our own kills of the cattle, sheep, goats & pigs & poultry & all we raised & ate. Being Germans there was all the wurst, black blood pudding & sausage to the old kraut recipe's. Grandma caught every drop of blood from the cut throats. The intestines cleaned & processed were used for wurst & sausage skins.
Every scrap of meat cut off & in the grinder, skulls cut open for brains & tongues & then boiled to get the remnant goodness to make what they called brawn or braun. bones & feet boiled to get the jelly part of the brawn. Grandpa ate the boiled eyes sucked out of the skull.
It used to be said that the only thing those old Germans did not use from the pig was the squeal.
Well to prove his point my Grandpa used to cut out & keep the voice box from the pig & had a whole row of dried ones nailed to the front edge of the top shelf in his workshop. He had some ears there too for silk purses someday. He was a real comedian.
I remember as a child climbing up there & getting some voice boxes down & blowing through them to try getting a noise. They did not make a peep.
So it is true, the only thing thrown away is the squeal.
O.M
