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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Teresa Heilevang on May 06, 2012, 11:07:59 PM
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This is my cousin Jimmie McDonald showing you how to clean a squirrel the easy way. My family have hunted and trapped and lived off wild game forever. Our freezers were stocked with everything that could swim crawl and fly. As a child I was expected to help clean and skin all the game that was brought in. Then as I got to be 10 years old i started learning to make everything by scratch and cook everything that was brought in.. As I got a bit older, I then got to hunt ( but still had to clean and cook) LOL
My daddy taught me how to clean squirrels like this a long time ago.. I think The McDonalds must have invented this technique, as no one much cleans them like this and I know people who won't hunt them cause they hated to clean them..until I showed them how. ;D I have shown a lot of men how to clean a squirrel and have never failed to hear how much better my/our way is than the way that they had tried to do it. Now you can see first hand the easy way to clean squirrels..
And by the way~~this little critter is my favorite meat over anything else. :)
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In a REAL disaster situation, this is probably the most useful video that could be posted.
Thanks M'ette.
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Awesome video! Thanks!
Now how do you like to cook them?
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Awesome video! Thanks!
Now how do you like to cook them?
Cook them like we do native hens.
Place big pot of water on to boil
Throw in the hen squirrel and a brick.
Boil to when the brick is soft and then remove the squirrel and eat the brick.
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very cool,
I can not believe that YouTube have flagged that as restricted.
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I cut them up in pieces.. if they're young ones..flour and cook like fried chicken in bacon grease. .. if they are old ones ( and you can tell my the size of their balls when you clean them :) ) then I flour them.. brown them in bacon grease and then put them in a cast iron skillet.. add a little water to them ..put the lid on tight and let them finish cooking real slow. add fried potatoes, biscuits or cornbread and gravy ..and you have just eaten what I was raised on. I do the same with dove, prairie chicken , pheasant or quail, rabbit, beaver, coon. Best eatin' in the whole world!
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Awesome video! Thanks!
Now how do you like to cook them?
Put a half-dozen in a crockpot with some chicken broth.....season with salt, pepper, a pinch of sage and a little cilantro.......cut up and add onion, squash, and red 'taters and let stew until the meat will pull off the bone.
Served over a bed of rice is good also.
:D
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Just don't roast them over hot coals like we used to. It makes them tough. I hear that a crock pot is the way to go.
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Yummy! Tree rats is good vittles..
And, is that a Paratroopers badge on the Sarges' cap or Air Traffic Controller?