Once a month, I give a nutrition presentation for our church’s children’s group “Rock Solid Kids.”
I’ve presented on the food groups–talking about variety and balance. I’ve presented on grains–and how half the grains should be whole. I’ve presented on fruits and vegetables–and how we should eat all the colors of the rainbow.
This Wednesday, I’ll talk about dairy.
Which means it’s time to talk bones.
For the sake of the kids (and certainly not for my own sake :-P), I purchased two fried chicken drumsticks from SuperSaver to eat for dinner tonight. I carefully ate every scrap of meat off the bones (such sacrifice!) and painstakingly removed all the excess cartilage from the joints.
I placed one bone on my stovetop to dry–and the other, I placed in a saucepan full of vinegar.
Do you remember that experiment? Didn’t you do it when you were in elementary school? You soak a bone in vinegar until the calcium leaches out, leaving a soft, rubbery, bendable bone.
It’s been a long time since I did that experiment–and I can’t remember how long it takes to bend a bone. That’s why I’m heating the vinegar–I figured that’d make the reaction go more rapidly.
But still, I’m impatient. After three hours on the stove, surely my bone should be bendable, right?
But it’s not. Which leaves me with a dilemma. Do I leave the bone on the stove? Do I transfer it into a crockpot? Do I take it off the stove and leave it in a covered jar and trust that it’ll bend by Wednesday? I don’t know.
How long does it take to bend a bone?
A rather involved recipe–and not quite as good as I’d have liked. It was good but not fantastic.
