Never used one.
I thought stewing hens were old laying hens that are no longer productive egg producers.
Supposedly you can coax a lot of broth flavor out of them.
Yes. The article was of the opinion that stewing hens were not available to most people but I found an old girl at my local Chinese grocery. I was wondering if our group had any experience with them. I certainly don’t think that young fryers have a lot of flavor - even, lately, the kosher birds that I buy.
That’s what I thought too - what they call in our Hispanic market a ‘gallina’; though that term seems to mean different things in different countries.