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a recipe Blue requested
Topic Started: October 10, 2008, 11:34 am (185 Views)
SonofSargas
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Stuffed Roast Opossum

Ingredients

* 1 opossum
* 1 cup salt

Opossum Stuffing

* 1 large onion, chopped fine
* 1 tablespoon fat
* opossum liver (optional)
* 1 cup breadcrumbs
* chopped red peppers
* 1 dash worcestershire sauce
* 1 hard-boiled egg, chopped fine
* salt, to taste

Directions

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Roast Opossum:.
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The opossum is a very fat animal with a peculiarly flavored meat.
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It is dressed much as one would dress a suckling pig, removing the entrails, and if desired, the head and tail.
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After it is dressed, wash thoroughly inside and out with hot water.
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Cover with cold water to which has been added 1 cup of salt.
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Allow to stand overnight. In morning, drain off the salted water and rinse well with clear water.
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Stuff opossum with opossum stuffing (stuffing recipes next); sew opening or fasten with skewers.
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Place in roaster, add 2 tablespoons water and roast in moderate oven (350°F) until tender and richly browned, about one and one half hours.
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Bast every 15 minutes with drippings.
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Remove skewers or stitches, and place on heated platter.
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Skim fat from gravy remaining in pan.
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Opossum Stuffing:
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Brown onion in fat.
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Add finely chopped opossum liver and cook until liver is tender.
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Add crumbs, a little red pepper, Worcestershire sauce, egg, salt and water to moisten.

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Blue Phoenix
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i did NOT request this recipe!


...i don't like red peppers... :p


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that wasn't you?
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*points at Roady* musta been him!



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yeah, have a bunch of the pesky critters bedding under my house....
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Blue Phoenix
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i am prejudiced against opossums. a sick one went behind my house when i was a kid, and it was carrying cat distemper. it killed one of my cats before i could get them vaccinated. (i lived in the country with no money.)

they're pretty prehistoric, and one of the few marsupials (if not the only) in North America. ugly critters, too!


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They are ugly, but on the whole they are actually fairly beneficial creatures to have about (apart from the distemper incident)

They eat roaches and snakes, which is a big plus. They also tend to do very little actual property damage, and they aren't truly super-vicious unless threatened (unlike Racoons, which can be scary mothers)
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True, they're not a creature i would be afraid of if i came upon one. And every animal has it's place in the scheme of things. i just don't like them.

i never came into close contact with a raccoon, though. Mostly i saw things like deer, snakes, turtles, crayfish, flying squirrels, a baby skunk that annointed me... hey, i even heard a bobcat once in a while in the woods behind my house. That was a scary sound.


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ooo... I'd love to see a bobcat, as long as it wasn't angry with me.

Racoons are actually quite cute. However, they tend to have a rather 'this is mine and bugger off' attitude, and when they get in packs and after food you stay the 'eck out of their way. One time while camping we woke up with a hoard of them outside. It sounded like the woods were possessed with devils, and when you put a light out there, a bunch of angry eyes glowed back at you. We stayed inside, and in the morning found where they chewed through the SIDE of our cooler to get to the food inside.
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...not cool...


ah, i loved growing up at the edge of the woods! i related to animals long before i got attached to people, lol.

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I have another possum recipe. I got it from my grandfather, so its kinda of country.

1. Taken the possum, head still attached, stick an apple in its mouth.

2. Place dressed possum on a pine board.

3. Take possum on pine slate, place in oven. Cook at 450 degrees for an hour or so.

4. Remove possum on pine slate.

5. Scrape possum into trashcan.

6. Eat toasted pine board. Its better than possum meat.

Needless to say, my grandfather was not a big fan of possum meat. I hear its extraordinarily greasy and gamey. Still, i think it might be a step above a pine board. maybe.
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:lol :lol :lol

LOL you had me going, there. i was thinking "oh no... ANOTHER Jed Clampett recipe???" i LOVE your granddad's sense of humor!

Thank you for not grossing me out...

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