The Stretching Chicken

Total Time: 9 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 9 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 1 large stewing chicken (as large as your crockpot will hold)
• 1 large onion
• 2 cups water or 2 cups chicken stock
• salt & pepper
• 1 -2 bay leaf

Recipe

• 1 put your old hen, onion, & bayleaf in the crock pot (cut up if necessary to fit but left whole is best), salt & pepper,add water (or chicken stock)& bay leaves.
• 2 turn on crock pot to low and cook for 9-10 hours, do not open the crock pot.
• 3 take out and cool the chicken.
• 4 pour the stock through a strainer.
• 5 remove fat, you can do this by pouring the sauce in a large flat bowl& refridgerate, leave for a couple of hours and spoon off the fat.
• 6 save the jellied consumme. you may portion it into freezer bags and freeze it for future use
• 7 remove skin& bones from the chicken (you can reboil this and get more stock for chicken soup or discard).
• 8 leave in chunks or shred the chicken keep out what you are going to use now and portion freeze the rest.
• 9 if possible vacuum seal before freezing or get out as much air as possible befor freezing