Squirrel

[fishtrap3]

How do all of you cook your tree rats? I will be taking the daughter and son this year and want them to tast some good cooking!! Please Help!!
Thanks fishtrap3

[Bodyman]

Tree rats are exellent eating. Theres no way I would try to hide or cover their flavor. First you have to separate the old and tough from the young and tender. That's easy once their skun out. Cut them into pieces.

The bigger, older, tougher should be simmered until tender in lightly seasoned water. Salt/pepper or with carrots, onions, celery. You can even simmer the young, but they won't take much time. Cooled then dusted with seasoned flour and pan fried in butter.I think they taste better then fried chicken.

Another way I like them is dipped in an egg wash then breaded with what ever you like. Pan fry until brown then cover with a basic white sauce and simmer on low until tender. A little sour cream added to the sauce just before serving.

Hunting them with a .22 makes for better and safer eating. Nothing like a pellet to crack a tooth. Hunting with a .22 also sharpens the eye for any other hunting you do.

Fishing is Life.
Hunting is a close 2nd.

[This message has been edited by Bodyman (edited 08-16-2003).]

[LABS4ME]

Been a few years since I cooked them, but found the best way was to cook them long and slow in the crock pot with onions, garlic, can of water, can of cream of mushroom, can of cream of chicken, before dinner take all meat off the bones, put back in sauce, add frozen beef stew mix to sauce, cook 1 hour on high and eat. Tasted good, hard to tell it wasn't beef. Good Luck! I think most of us cut our hunting teeth on them thar' tree rats. Unfortunatley I grew up eating em' fried. Tough little buggars. It's good you're teaching the kids to eat what they harvest. One other way I burned up a bunch of left over game which included some squirrels (also duck, deer, rabbit etc.) was to put it all in a crock pot, cut up a whole onion, some garlic, 1/2 inch of water on bottom, 1 cup zesty Italian dressing. Cook all day. 1 hour before serving shred meat, add BBQ sauce to your liking and serve on buns, did that for a football game and it was all gone by half. Good Luck....Ken

[fishtrap3]

Thanks this will give me and the kids a place to start!!

[craze4fshn]

Found a receipe for squirrel in a book on game cookery. It is for squirrel skillet pie. If you'd like it I can email it to you. Sounds pretty gd. Char

[Walleye_GFA]

Brings back memories...

Ive had them as a stew cooked all day as some mentioned above...

The fella I ate the stew with used to gross me out... he would cook the heads, split the jaws, eat the tounge, then he would use a nutcracker to get at the ol gray matter...

Pretty disquesting to me but he loved the "parts"...

The stew was awsome, we ate it with fresh biscuits and tree rat gravey...

Tree rats... thats funny...

Wally

[fishtrap3]

Craze
I would like the recipe please send it to
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thanks Fred

[Bodyman]

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[tex22]

I do not know what is exactly in it. But when I was a kid my grandmother use to make us squirrel and dumplings. Like I say I do not know what is in it but maybe someone has a good chicken and dumplings receipe to go by.