Need Recipe for Ol Possum

Ruthless4christ · November 12, 2008, 05:31 PM

hey ya'll got any ideas for cooking possum? i have taken quite a few out these year and am board with frying em. any other ideas of how to make em taste good?

hogdogs · November 12, 2008, 05:32 PM

Something about cooking on a pine wood board comes to mind...:barf:
Brent

publius · November 12, 2008, 06:00 PM

Leave 'em there, buzzards and coyotes have to eat too.

sureshots · November 12, 2008, 06:00 PM

Hotdogs, Be nice. We must save the trees, remember?

hogdogs · November 12, 2008, 06:03 PM

TEE-RUST Me... I wuz bein' nice...

Now I do however have numerous bulldogs on the yard and they have not found a critter they don't like... I don't even clean them... I just present the fresh kill to one and they eat what they consider edible. I have found some teeth and a paw or 2 afterwards... they don't eat chicken feet either.
Brent

Buzzcook · November 12, 2008, 09:53 PM

Never having cooked opossum I had to look it up in my grannies cookbook.

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Immerse in very hot (not boiling) water for one minute. Remove and use a dull knife to scrap off hair so that skin is not cut. Slit from bottom of throat to hind legs and remove entrails. Remove the head and tail if desired. Wash thoroughly inside and out with hot water. Cover with cold water to which has been added 1 cup of salt. Allow to stand over night; in the morning drain off the salted water and rinse with clear, boiling water.

Make stuffing as follows; Brown 1 cup finely chopped onion with 1 tablespoon butter. Add chopped opossum liver and cook untill tender. Add 1 cup of bread crumbs, a little chopped red pepper, a hard cooked egg, finely chopped, dash worchestershire sauce, salt and water to moisten. Stuff opossum with mixture, fasten the opening with skewers or by sewing. With 2 tablespoons water roast in moderate oven (350 F) untill meat is tender and richly browned. Baste constantly with opossum's own fat.Remove skewers or stitches, serve on a heated platter. Skim fat from gravy and serve with baked yams.

There ya go. The book is from the 1930's and the recipe is probably from way before that. This type of cookbook assumes that you know how to gut an animal, what a moderate oven is, how to make gravy, and how to make a basic stuffing amongst other things. I'd really recommend that you try to modernize the recipe.

grymster2007 · November 12, 2008, 10:04 PM

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they don't eat chicken feet either.

Hell, some of my in-laws eat chicken feet and claim they's real good too. I haven't knuckled under yet, but probably just a matter of time.

They don't mention possum, but I'll ask.

I didn't build this physique by being picky 'bout what I eat.

Ruthless4christ · November 12, 2008, 10:20 PM

good work buzz, now i have something to work on!

iv actually never thrown the darned thing in an oven!

by the way chickens feet are GREAT! as long as you peel them properly they make absalutely great soup! make it just like i would any other chicken soup

Ruthless4christ · November 12, 2008, 10:21 PM

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Something about cooking on a pine wood board comes to mind...
Brent

its honestly not that bad, gettig over te smell is the biggest hurdle, and the white haired ones are alot less gamey then the black ones.

wpcexpert · November 12, 2008, 11:39 PM

I've never been able to bring myself to eat an opossum. Ever since I watched 5 crawl out of a dead cow's rear-end....nope, no sir.

Pahoo · November 13, 2008, 01:47 PM

Years ago, we use to trap in an area that had a couple of Hobo Jungles, anyone remember them?? They are now called "Homeless". Anyway whenever we trapped one, we would trade with the Hobos for old knives, lures and anything they might have. On more than one occasion, they invited us to join them in a Possum feed and or course we politely excused ourselves. On one occasion, we got a nice young one and started to skin it right there. We pulled the hide away and saw a bunch of stringy fat come with the hide. Did not take to long to figure out that we should stick to Coon, Beaver and yes, even Muskrats. We went back to trading with the Hobos. Even now, kind of hard to get that picture out of my head. Hey, it's still protien and there was a time when we were not so picky on what we ate and where it came from. My Grandmother use to cook kidneys.

Be Safe !!!!

ActivShootr · November 13, 2008, 06:57 PM

1. Dig a large hole as far away from the house as you can.
2. Place 'possum in hole.
3. Cover with dirt.
4. Order pizza or chineese take-out.
5. Enjoy not eating 'possum.

November 12, 2008, 05:31 PM	#1
Ruthless4christ Senior Member Join Date: June 24, 2007 Location: CNY Posts: 790	Need Recipe for Ol Possum hey ya'll got any ideas for cooking possum? i have taken quite a few out these year and am board with frying em. any other ideas of how to make em taste good?

November 12, 2008, 06:00 PM	#3
publius Senior Member Join Date: January 25, 2005 Location: Mississippi/Texas Posts: 2,505	Leave 'em there, buzzards and coyotes have to eat too. __________________ "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself." Mark Twain

November 12, 2008, 06:00 PM	#4
sureshots Senior Member Join Date: March 17, 2008 Location: Piedmont,NC Posts: 464	Hotdogs Hotdogs, Be nice. We must save the trees, remember?

November 12, 2008, 11:39 PM	#10
wpcexpert Senior Member Join Date: February 28, 2008 Location: Central Arkansas Posts: 791	I've never been able to bring myself to eat an opossum. Ever since I watched 5 crawl out of a dead cow's rear-end....nope, no sir. __________________ When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil. - Thomas Jefferson

November 13, 2008, 06:57 PM	#12
ActivShootr Senior Member Join Date: August 15, 2007 Posts: 1,040	How to make 'possum taste good. 1. Dig a large hole as far away from the house as you can. 2. Place 'possum in hole. 3. Cover with dirt. 4. Order pizza or chineese take-out. 5. Enjoy not eating 'possum.

November 12, 2008, 05:32 PM	#2
hogdogs Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 31, 2007 Location: Western Florida panhandle Posts: 11,069	Something about cooking on a pine wood board comes to mind...:barf: Brent

November 12, 2008, 06:03 PM	#5
hogdogs Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 31, 2007 Location: Western Florida panhandle Posts: 11,069	TEE-RUST Me... I wuz bein' nice... Now I do however have numerous bulldogs on the yard and they have not found a critter they don't like... I don't even clean them... I just present the fresh kill to one and they eat what they consider edible. I have found some teeth and a paw or 2 afterwards... they don't eat chicken feet either. Brent

November 12, 2008, 10:20 PM	#8
Ruthless4christ Senior Member Join Date: June 24, 2007 Location: CNY Posts: 790	good work buzz, now i have something to work on! iv actually never thrown the darned thing in an oven! by the way chickens feet are GREAT! as long as you peel them properly they make absalutely great soup! make it just like i would any other chicken soup

November 13, 2008, 01:47 PM	#11
Pahoo Senior Member Join Date: February 16, 2006 Location: IOWA Posts: 8,783	Years ago, we use to trap in an area that had a couple of Hobo Jungles, anyone remember them?? They are now called "Homeless". Anyway whenever we trapped one, we would trade with the Hobos for old knives, lures and anything they might have. On more than one occasion, they invited us to join them in a Possum feed and or course we politely excused ourselves. On one occasion, we got a nice young one and started to skin it right there. We pulled the hide away and saw a bunch of stringy fat come with the hide. Did not take to long to figure out that we should stick to Coon, Beaver and yes, even Muskrats. We went back to trading with the Hobos. Even now, kind of hard to get that picture out of my head. Hey, it's still protien and there was a time when we were not so picky on what we ate and where it came from. My Grandmother use to cook kidneys. Be Safe !!!!