Posted on 10/21/2013 10:58:15 AM PDT by thackney
There were few squirrels where my Granny grew up but I saw a couple of Jack Rabbits take one in the 10 ring from 50 yards when I was a kid.
If I were a chicken and she had an ax beware.
Squirrel is good food, especially the hind legs of a younger speciman. Coat with flour, garlic powder and a bit of pepper and fry as you would a chicken leg or thigh.
That was amazing! Thanks! I’ll show this to my grandson...:)
That was amazing! Thanks! I’ll show this to my grandson...:)
don’t know how to skin a squirrel but have skinned goat and possum with a single edge razor blade and an air compressor when I had the farm....
My dad and I went hunting morning and evening on weekends. We never let game go to waste and so we had plenty to eat. We'd bring bring in quail and duck as well. The freezer stayed full. :-)
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As others have said, watch out for the buckshot. Chew squirrel easy. It’s good fried or boiled like chicken and dumplings. I grew up on squirrel, frog legs, various birds, fish from the river and rattlesnake. Oh, do I remember the time Grandpa brought a mess of frogs up from the cattle tank. My world revolved around him so I ran out door in a rush with my hair flying and swarm of wasps attacked my head. Granny was the fisherman. Once, there was a steady rain so she had on a big slicker. The fish were biting that day and it was all she could do to stuff her pockets with fish to bring them to the house and go back out again and again. She could cook up a spread just like Miss Kay. The show takes me back to those days.
It’s a good thing Phil didn’t see me when the (now inside) cat brought me a present. A live snake dumped in the middle of the livingroom floor. I didn’t dare shoot it so beat the thing to death with granny’s (mine now) old cast iron skillet. Paddle, skillet, whatever it takes.
I actually sat and watched the show last night for a couple of hours. At first I thought it was a bit lame, but I got hooked. I laughed when the CEO (can’t remember his name) hit the golf ball, and the other two shot it like it was a skeet. I wound up really enjoying it, and there is very little I watch on that stupid television. It is simple, honest, virtuous, and just plain cute. I love simple, God-fearing people. They are a joy to encounter.
They're not bad at all. I used to hunt squirrels and bring them home and eat them.
But then I've eaten a lot of crawdad tails too.
don’t know how to skin a squirrel but have skinned goat and possum with a single edge razor blade and an air compressor when I had the farm....
Makes for nice pelts for fly tying material trade....pull the tail bone and peddle them to Sheldon’s (Mepps).
Never tried squirrel, probably never will but friends and family that do tell me how good they are. My granddaddy used to eat hog’s head cheese.....yuck! lol
My grandpa butchered hogs every year after morning frosts became dependable. Every part of the carcass was used in one way or another, and everyone helped in the processing.
When he passed away, my grandma gave me the sausage grinder because I probably turned the handle more than anyone else. lol Pork sausage is still one of my favorite meats and I usually have it several times a week. At my last checkup, the doc asked me what I did to have such a low cholesterol level. I told him I made sure I ate plenty of pork sausage. ;) Actually, lean pork sausage is lower in cholesterol than chicken - most doctors don't know that. Everyone just assumes all pork is higher.
Meats most agreeable to humans are venison, lamb, and fish. Beef and especially shell foods are the worst. IIRC, shrimp has about 10 times the cholesterol of pork patty sausage.
In my youth, the staple foods were wild game, fish, poultry (chicken, turkey, quail, duck), eggs, milk, onions, corn, potatoes, rice, greens, cabbage, peas, beans, tomatoes, okra, cornbread, biscuits, pork, beef, melons, wild berries, fruits (pears, peaches, plums), nuts (pecans and peanuts), homemade cakes and pies. Just about everything came from the river, woods, or farm except for spices, salt, flour and canned meats like corned beef.
I wanted the possum pelt, they have a beautiful hide when tanned, after preparing the hides for tanning, off they went to a tanner in Bucks county Penn..Angora hides in full hair are beautiful. Each one of my kids has one
Sounds like we were separated at birth. My family on both sides were all farmers during the depression. Momma would tell me about the hogs they butchered, smoke houses, fried chicken and the back-breaking cotton fields and all the things about growing up on the farm. I loved to hear stories about the “old days”. I wouldn’t trade my background of good ol’ east Texas rednecks for all the tea in China. The greatest generation will always be close to my heart.
I've got one of these new electric smokers that sits on my breezeway that I use to smoke meats. Every time I open the door on it, reminds me of that old smokehouse on my grandpa's place. He used "beargrass" (palmetto leaves) to hang the meat with, and hickory wood to add flavor to the bacon slabs.
We didn't have much money, but ate like kings, and never had to worry where our next meal was coming from, and were beholding to no one - probably same as you. ;)
I was raised a city girl with country values. We used to tease momma and daddy about being raised 80 miles from each other. He was raised 40 miles west of Lufkin and she was raised 40 miles east of Lufkin. Still have lots of cousins in both places and when we visit the memories flood my soul. So long ago but like it was yesterday too.
Shaving is not a personal hygiene issue.
I have a beard myself.
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