How to use the whole animal (waste not want not)

[hennible]

It really makes me wonder when we turned away from all these other foods... What spurred the distaste for brains and organs? Why do I automatically assume it's odd that you eat squirrel? It's not odd but part of me just automatically thinks eating rodents is weird...
Same with bugs. I'd Like to change all these misconceptions about what's edible and what's not for myself and for my kids... It spills over into vegetables as well, there's approximately only 12 vegetables that are commonly cultivated for human consumption even though there are thousands that are perfectly healthy and edible and tasty...
We've even gotten to the point where we can't handle using natural rennet to make cheese!

 

[Beer can]

The dairy plant I work at uses some sort of vegtable rennet, not the traditional rennet. They also use some sort of frozen 'culture', not sure what that is just know it is in packets in a freezer that will freeze dry ice.

I know what changed everyones taste for traditional foods, McDonalds! Lol!

 

[Cold Canadian]

Hey cold Canadian glad you found this thread! Considering there's 900,000 odd threads it's pretty easy to miss some lol.
I can't wait for my next butchering session I'm going to hopefully have some Mennonite friends show me how to peel feet again I'll add a guide for chicken feet peeling!

That's easy , boil water , submerge ,to peel the skin off , just start at the top and slip a paring knife behind the skin and start a flap , then just grab the flap and peel , toenails pop right off or just cut them off , Yellow feet on a chicken were the best for chicken soup , some say the more corn the better tasting the chicken ........I kinda agree .......Mennonite eh ???......................lol

 

[hennible]

Lotsa Mennonites here eh! thats who taught me to butcher!
Your instructions sound easy enough, thanks. I still want to do a picture guide though, I like them, I figure other people would too.

 

[Beer can]

Mennonites have a awesome store ten miles from me. If I ever want anything in bulk especially spices I go there. You can get spices half price and four times the size container as a typical grocery store. They have the typical Amish type stuff too. Deli meats are the best. And they have homemade scrapple! Don't talk much though.

 

[Cold Canadian]

Only reason I said that is because it's a belief system that has been attached to a minority , most are German ,Russian as far as nationality goes , lots here as well , more coming in every year from Europe , but I understand what you meant . Kinda like calling the French catholic instead of French ...........

 

[Beer can]

Only reason I said that is because it's a belief system that has been attached to a minority , most are German ,Russian as far as nationality goes , lots here as well , more coming in every year from Europe , but I understand what you meant . Kinda like calling the French catholic  instead of French ...........

Maybe Mennonites are different down here? I don't know? Is your comment addressing me? Anyways if it is Mennonites in the USA are basically Amish of which there is a lot of but the Mennonites have left the rule of no electric and no cars, they live like the rest of us but live still with their religion and still wear plain clothes and farm etc. Still both of them are a minority but so are many others. I don't care, they do their thing, I do mine. I don't know where they originally came from but they have been here almost as long as my family. We came to the US and settled in New Amsterdam, now NYC, twenty years or so years after the pilgrim's landed. 1644 my family
tree goes back. And that is just for how long we have been in America, my tree goes much fartherback into our homeland, but I don't care about that I live in the here and now.

 

[Cold Canadian]

Maybe Mennonites are different down here? I don't know? Is your comment addressing me? Anyways if it is Mennonites in the USA are basically Amish of which there is a lot of but the Mennonites have left the rule of no electric and no cars, they live like the rest of us but live still with their religion and still wear plain clothes and farm etc. Still both of them are a minority but so are many others. I don't care, they do their thing, I do mine. I don't know where they originally came from but they have been here almost as long as my family. We came to the US and settled in New Amsterdam, now NYC, twenty years or so years after the pilgrim's landed. 1644 my family
tree goes back. And that is just for how long we have been in America, my tree goes much fartherback into our homeland, but I don't care about that I live in the here and now.

It was Hennible's comment , and yup ....they do seem different elsewhere . There are a lot here as well , more coming in from Germany where they do refer themselves as Mennonites as well ? some are immigrants from Russia that went to Germany and now here . just a pet peeve with me as I refer to them as Europeans ? But they do keep to the old traditions from where ever they came ? which in hind sight is keeping a lot of old world knowledge alive . I'd like to think we all have something to contribute in this world and so we do as they do . Hope that makes sense .......I hope I didn't offend anyone

 

[Beer can]

@Cold Canadian Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering if we were talking about different people, I just have never heard of them immigrating. I just always thought they were just here not coming from somewhere.

 

[Kusanar]

@Cold Canadian Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering if we were talking about different people, I just have never heard of them immigrating. I just always thought they were just here not coming from somewhere.

I have also heard them being called "German Baptist" and since they (and the Amish) both speak a version of german and think they believe the bible must be read in german... I know the Amish do...