Subj : Re: Fresh Meat
To : Ruth Haffly
From : Dave Drum
Date : Tue Jan 02 2024 05:37:00
-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-
DD> Humphrey's equivalent can be found in small town America more readily
DD> than in the larger burgs. We have another butcher/meat market/grocer
DD> in the past few years. Magro's opened in an former Eagle Stupormarkup
DD> store - so they have more roomy aisles and carry lots more grocery and
DD> sundry items. And they have a slaughtering operation on-site.
RH> I'll have to check out Whole Foods and Wegman's. I know the latter does
RH> do some specialty butchering but don't know if they go whole hog or
RH> not.
If their butchers are truly butchers and not just "meat cutters" they'll
be able to take a side of (animal) and break it down to its various cuts.
Humphrey's buys "sides" of beef, whole hog carcasses, etc.
Magro's buys live, on the hoof animals and goes from there.
DD> Humphrey's does not have a slaughtering operation but they have
DD> everything else. During deer season they advertise freee butchering of
DD> your results if you donate 25% of the meat to soup
DD> kitchens/breaddlines and/or homeless shelters.
RH> Good for them! I don't know of any places around here that do anything
RH> of that sort, but then too, I don't know any local butchers or hunters.
RH> Organisations like those need all the help they can get and free food
RH> is a big help.
Since they are located in a rough neighbourhood they're just taking care
of the neighbours.
DD> We also have some chicken rustlers - Ciota & Foster - who supply
DD> local markets and restaurants with fresh chicken. They do not sell
DD> directly to te public, however.
RH> Too bad. I remember years ago my folks got a buy on whole chickens,
RH> don't remember how they got that deal but had roast chicken once a week
RH> for some months. It was before they got their home freezer so they
RH> rented space in the town's cold storage locker building.
DD> My "olds" never did that. If we weren't keeping chickens and eating
DD> from our flock my granddad or dad would visit a nearby farm and buy a
DD> nice fat free-range hen for Sunday's dinner.
RH> My dad was a white collar worker (local newspaper/free lance
RH> photographer) so we didn't have any livestock except cats and dogs. I
RH> have no idea how he got the chickens but there were a lot of them.
Did your family have to pluck the feathers and diembowel the chook?
DD> I'm not sure there are any surviving "locker plants" since home
DD> freezers and refrigerators have become so affordable.
RH> There may be some in the Amish/Mennonite areas of the country--those
RH> folks don't have electricity on their farms.
Amish, maybe. Mennonites are more modern. We have an Amish enclave near
to here (Arthur, IL) and marketroids often us "Amish made" as a touchstone
when sellin a whole range of things.
I always thought a Monnonite was pretty much and Amish with a phone and
a car. Bv)=
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
Title: Mennonite Bread
Categories: Breads, Dairy, Grains
Yield: 4 Loaves
1/2 oz (2 pkt) active dry yeast
2 c Water; 110-|F/43-|C
2 c Buttermilk
1/4 c Oil
1/2 c Honey
1/4 c Wheat germ
1 c Rye flour
4 c Whole wheat flour
Bread flour
In a large mixing bowl, dissolve the yeast in 1 cup of the
warm water. Let stand 5 mins. until yeast foams. Stir in
the salt, oil, honey, remaining water, and buttermilk.
Mix in the rye flour, wheat germ, and whole wheat flour;
beat well. Add bread flour, 1 cup at a time, beating well
until stiff dough forms. Turn dough out onto lightly
floured board and knead until smooth and elastic, about 10
mins., adding additional bread flour as needed.
Wash bowl, grease it, and add dough to bowl. Turn over to
grease top of dough. Cover and let rise in a warm place
until doubled.
Grease four 8 1/2" bread pans. punch dough down. Divide
into 4 parts. Shape each into a loaf and place in pans.
Cover loosely. Let rise until about doubled.
Bake in preheated 375-|F/190-|C oven for approx. 40 mins.
Recipe By: Mennonite Central Committee adapted by Ellen Smith
From:
http://www.recipesource.com
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