Posted on 03/22/2006 9:44:03 AM PST by managusta
I loved turtle soup the one time I tried it.
My father was one of the cowboys hired to round up the bison and load them on cattle-cars at the soon-to-be military base at Wainwright. I found some interesting info here.
Wainwright.http://collections.ic.gc.ca/canoe/cargo.htm
****"Bless the beasts and the children"... anybody remember that maudlin film? ****
That film was so bad that the makers even put advertizing in gun magazines to try to trick people to come and see it. The film was aimed at the Hippie generation, about 1971.
The Gus of Autumn, a so-called "documentary" about hunting ran on CBS, was just as bad. Some of the hunting footage of the polar bear hunt was faked and passed off as real.
78 million to kill 4500 buffalo?
i'll make 'em a deal...i'll do it for 50 million.
You don't grind up turtle meat -- you fricassee it! I use a "modified fricassee" -- a recipe I got from a very elderly German woman (my friend's grandmother).
First you clean it. (After a trip to the hospital to sew up my finger, I refined that part of the process -- I first parboil it (after killing and bleeding), and then I clean it. The parboiling makes it possible to peel off the scales and outer skin without heavy knife-work -- or, the risk of slipping and gashing your finger!)
Once it's cleaned, you cut it into sections, and then boil them until tender.
Then, you batter and deepfry the pieces.
MMMmmmm.... GOOD!
I'll do it for $25 million, AND, I'll haul off the meat for FREE!
Quite delicious, actually. Somewhat reminiscent of lobster, in both texture and flavor.
Oops, mea culpa. I got my replies mixed up.
I was talking about snapping turtle, not bison. I've never had bison, but I understand it's pretty good eating. I'd like to try some some time.
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