I picked up the "L.L. Bean Game & Fish Cook Book" over 30 years ago. Great book - recipes for EVERYTHING in it. It also has tips on butchering, what to stock for camp - even recipes for coffee & desserts that can be made in camp.

If you can find one, I suggest you buy it !

What DT said, GREAT book!

You have to consider the time that these receipts were published. 1943 was the height of WWII meat was rationed and scarce so about any edible protein source was a delicacy. My Great Grandfather had operated a butcher shop before migrating to Southern California after WWI and he and his cronies would travel the Catalina and Avalon islands and harvest feral goats to keep meat on the table.

Some 60 years ago I gave my Mother a Christmas gift of George and Berthe Herter's "Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices". She smiled, thanked me and put the two volume set away. When she passed away, I recovered the gift and still enjoy reading it and have tried a few recipes.

There never were near as many women in the far west, where Bruce likes to tell everybody he's from. Now he's explained it, those boys out there don't eat beaver......

DLH

Each summer, at the fundraiser for the Lovells, MI Historical Society, the theme is "Beaver, Beer and Banjos". The beaver is made into a delicious stew, which some creep from the Guvmnt said we couldn't sell, because it wasn't from a guvmnt approved supplier (the beavers were trapped to help improve our trout streams). We solved the problem by giving the stew away, and placing a donation jar at the end of the line.

Thanks for the chuckle this scene from an old movie came to mind, Police Squad, "Nice Beaver" :rotf:

And yet again the Kansas Cowboy Ambulance Chaser (Originally from the Land of Fruits and Nuts) has deleted his own thread.

Beaver is some of the finest eating there is. BBQ'd ribs taste just like grey or fox squirrel, which isn't surprising since beaver live on the bark from birch, aspen, cottonwood, alder, willow, etc. The tails are supposed to be tasty when roasted on wood coals; can't confirm that unfortunately. You want to know how to cook even possum just buy a Joy of Cooking; it's ALL in there.

i have never eaten beaver but my brother does he says its realkly good...i ve eaten raccoon its good but no possum or roadkill for me...going saturday to try alligator...charlie