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~~~Guess what's for dinner tonight~~~ Okay, have been looking through my cookbook collection and I have a cookbook that was my mother's cookbook, 'American Woman's Cook Book' printed in 1954.... It is a keepsake and has packing tape holding the cover together but I don't think I will ever part with it.... flipping through, I found the following recipe..... is this something you would fix or eat? The opossum is a very fat animal with a peculiarly flavored meat. To dress, immerse in very hot water (not boiling) for 1 minute. Remove and use a dull knife to scrape off hair so that skin is not cut. Slit from bottom of throat to hind legs and remove entrails. Remove head and tail if desired. Wash thoroughly inside and out with hot water. Cover with cold water to which has been added 1 cup of salt and let stand overnight. Drain off the salted water and rinse with clean, boiling water. Stuffing: 1 lg onion minced 1 T fat Opossum liver, chopped 1 c bread crumbs 1 sweet red pepper, chopped Dash Worcestershire sauce 1 hard cooked egg, chopped salt Brown the onion in fat. Add liver and cook until liver is tender. Add bread crumbs, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, egg, salt and water to moisten. Stuff opossum and place in roaster; add 2 T water and roast in a moderate oven. Baste every 15 mins with drippings. Skim fat from pan gravy; serve gravy separately with baked yams or sweetpotatoes for 10. Oh doesn't this sound yummy?? Maybe replace turkey at Thanksgiving.... I am thinking... no way.... no how...LOL 
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If you turned up your nose at any food my Mother cooked, she'd say, "You've never been hungry." Oh my goodness!!! 
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Absolutely nothing there! I will check again.
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I am not adventurous in that way. No opossum for me. Elaine Shuel
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6/21/2015 11:13 pm |
I'll have to forward this one to a friend's son who recently saw a video about eating squirrel and is fascinated with the thought. Spiritwoman ^i^
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I'd eat it. Never had it before. Had raccoon and that was okay. Never had squirrel either (yet). GBU, Gavin
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I don't know what happened before but I have the blog now. Granny Clampett of the Beverly Hillbillies was a fan of possum. I have eaten lots of small animals when I was a kid...Dad would hunt in the country of central Illinois. No possum though...I think he drew the line there. We had squirrel, rabbit, quail, etc.
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