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Depression Era Mock Chicken + Vintage 'Chicken Sans Volaille' Gadget | City Chicken Recipe

Byamazingfoodstv


Chicken Sans Volaille or chicken without poultry? What in the world? Let’s time travel to the 1930s where in some places chicken was expensive, so industrious folks came up with City Chicken or mock chicken. #emmymade #mockchicken

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
0:22 What are we making?
0:43 Vintage mock chicken maker.
2:47 Starting the recipe.
3:13 Grinding the meat.
3:52 Seasoning.
5:07 Making the cubed version.
6:45 Using the chicken mold.
9:26 Breading.
12:00 Pan frying.
12:42 Baking instructions.
14:17 Taste test.

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40 Comments

  2. I’m from Pittsburgh, PA and city chicken is definitely still a thing around here. You can get kits in the grocery store that come with the cubed pork and veal and the skewers. I haven’t made any in ages though, I’m going to have to give it a try:)

  5. I love the history of this. The ‘chicken in every pot’ campaign was run in 1928. That gives you a time reference. The veal and pork version was popular here: northern central Pennsylvania. It’s nonexistent here now. My gram was born in 1907 and lived to be 98. ❤

  14. My grandma used to make these back in the day, in Detroit…..I would think that they would taste more like chicken if you alternated cubes of veal with cubes of pork like Grandma did. These were always a holiday favorite in my family.

  19. Well…I never comment BUT!!! I do love your videos. And when I saw this one that says “City Chicken”, I lost it 😂
    In our family we call Pigeons, City Chickens!!!! My grandsons don’t know them by any other name!!! 😂
    Thanks for the video!! And thanks for the laugh 😅😂

  24. My mother would buy these at the store here in Michigan back in the 70's and 80's.
    Mock Chicken or City Chicken. We loved eating these. Grab the stick and nibble the meat.
    Many of them were made by mixing ground pork and veal together because it was cheaper than chicken meat.
    There is a meat department at a grocery store called Hardings in Plainwell, Michigan that still makes them today.

  30. Does pork need salt? They probably used a meat grinder and threw in scraps of pork and beef. Interesting tool. Where did you get it. I hope you put a link? Maybe even scraps of chicken? I thought mock chicken probably vegan.

  32. My family always made City Chicken with cubed pork/veal in cracker crumbs. Once browned, the skewers went in a Dutch oven with some sliced onions and chicken broth and were baked covered. I never understood going to the effort of crisping up the crumbs to just turn them soggy in the broth, but it did make a gravy that way.

  37. I grew up eating these in southern California. They were available at our local grocery store meat dept. My dad was from Pittsburgh PA (which is why we knew about them I imagine), and my mom was from Nebraska. I don't eat meat anymore, but I have fond memories about them!

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