Now, he had a perfect ingredient, and he decided to cook it in a special way, making a dish of wilderness saltwater chicken.
He returned to the shelter and generously scooped out three full tablespoons of coarse sea salt from the birch bark salt box.
"I just replenished my salt reserves, so today, we can indulge a little."
He evenly and carefully rubbed these precious coarse sea salts all over the Thunderbird's skin and massaged it repeatedly with his hands.
After finishing this, he placed the whole Thunderbird into an iron pot and added clear water, just enough to cover the bird's body.
He placed the iron pot on the fireplace fire and boiled the water inside the pot to a complete boil.
Then, he conducted "three dunks and three lifts," soaking the Thunderbird in boiling water for about ten seconds.
He then lifted it completely out of the water, allowing the skin to shrink slightly in the cold air, before immersing it back into the boiling water.
