"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> cshenk wrote:
>> > Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>> >
>> > On canned chicken
>> >
>> > > I certainly wouldn't use it for all things. But it's fine in a
>> > > casserole. It's fine mixed with gravy over mashed potatoes. And
>> > > it's perfectly fine in a quick broth based soup when you're sick.
>> > > It's also fine in chicken salad.
>> >
>> > Dunno as I'd try to make soup of it but chicken salad, yes and
>> > cassaroles work too. Texture more apt to break up but that isn't
>> > always a 'bad thing'.
>> >
>> > > You can even get a whole chicken in a can. Bones and all. I
>> > > haven't tried that. But they do sell them at Winco.
>> >
>> > Sue Bee was the brand of that which I recall. It's an odd item that
>> > hung on after refridgeration was common and is much like your
>> > smaller cans of chicken but with wasted bone and skin space. They
>> > did something with the 'juice' though that made it so you could
>> > make gravy from it pretty well just by adding sifted all purpose
>> > flour.
>> >
>> > Main thing the whole chicken in a can does very well is make a fast
>> > chicken soup. You can debone it cold, add the meat and the rest of
>> > the can's stuff and a bit of pasta/veggies and have a pretty good
>> > soup in 30 mins.
>>
>> I remember the Sue Bee brand. We used to sell it occasionally when I
>> worked at K Mart. It was chicken and dumplings I think. Very good
>> for a canned product.
>
> There that one too where it was a stew with dumplings.
>
> I can make better in 45 mins with cooked chicken and canned biscuits
> (or 1.5 hours to make real dumplings) but sometimes, 10 mins heating of
> a can wins the mix and I add stuff to make it better.

Yes. I too can make chicken and dumplings with my eyes closed and it is
better. But back when I was very poor and only needed food for myself, a
can of that stuff was fine. Now the Campbell's Chicken and Dumpling soup?
Oh gawd! I am just glad they quit making it. That was my brother's
favorite. I don't know what they did to those dumplings! They were tiny
little things and you could just keep chewing and chewing them and they
wouldn't go anywhere.