Quicksilver expressed an interest in eating raccoon meat.
Her flock of chickens suffered at the hands of them and her Papa catches and kills them. They are down to their last chicken. To date, they haven't eaten one. That would be "one chicken" or "one raccoon".
It seems only fair to eat the raccoons. Quicksilver, Southern Belle and Handsome Hombre can still eat their chickens but it will be second-hand chicken.
So...we looked for videos on catching and preparing raccoons for the table. The video at the top isn't about that but it is still interesting in the sense that the parents of this young family are very focused and intentional in how they are raising their children.
This video is a short tutorial on how to find and remove the scent glands from a raccoon before cooking it.He is adamant about removing as much fat as possible but in a grid-down situation you will want every calorie you can find. Fat is flavor and according to Rod Couling of Dansville, Michigan, nothing makes better meat-loaf than a fat, young raccoon.
My father grew up in Depression era Appalachia. Ate plenty of coon and tree rats. Said it was better than starving....but that's all that recommends it.
ReplyDeleteHe probably didn’t know how to cook them. Raccoon and Squirrel are good eating, if cooked right.
ReplyDeleteAbout 60 years ago my buddy and I were in his car and he hit a raccoon so we picked it up and took it to his place and cooked it and ate it. That was the last time I ate raccoon. ---ken
ReplyDeleteAs a kid during WW2 it was said, a fat fall possum would feed a small family for a week with enough fat left over to daub your boots for a month
ReplyDeleteThe ol' Hoover Hog.
DeleteTree Rats are indeed good eating once you learn how to skin the properly. I've used the leaning pole with hanging loops to get a fine batch.
ReplyDeleteWoodchucks after dining at my fine Garden Restaurant are indeed a nice fat roast.
BTW Joe what was left after that 77 grain 5.56mm went through that critter you shot last week?
Possum just started getting up my way. Might have to give them a try.
My family Great Depression stories spoke often that small trapped critters kept meat on the table. Deer were pretty much gone pretty soon in Kentucky.
Back when I lived in the Catskills of N.Y. II earned most of the family Christmas money on the trap line. We were kind of poor doing farm work about 1975. We tried muskrat but they were kind of livery because they were drowned. Tried one coon but it was so greasy the kids wouldn’t eat it.
ReplyDelete