>>I don't use it, and doubt too many do today. But it used to be commonly used in many of the ways that non-Jews use lard. Often, gathered from skimming soup.
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>One get an imagination how poor the folks must have been. The chicken fat on a soup is not much for the soup itself, especialy considering how many persons must have shared one chicken .... And the chicken used for soup are not the fat ones anyway ...

You must be way too north to know how the Donauschwaben like their hens and their soup :).

The best ones for the soup are the old ones - we say "matora koka, dobra supa" (old hen, good soup), and that's actually a kind of innuendo when mentioned so that the lady to whom it relates should hear it said accidentally but without obvious intention... I've also heard ladies of certain age declare that themselves.