Has anybody ever made, and ate, any of the dishes Granny would make on the Beverly Hillbillies?
Here's one for raccoon,
Coon should be bled and cleaned quickly after killing to prevent the meat from taking on a gamey taste. If you didn't shoot it but found it, and don't know how long it was laying there, add more spices to these recipes to mask the gamey taste. Or just hold your nose while you eat it if it's really bad.
Cut off the head and feet, then skin it. A good pair of pliers work really good. Make sure you get those musk glands off of the front of the legs using your fingers and knife, they'll stink up the meat real good if you don't. Wash your hands real good after you get em off so you don't stink up the meat touchin it. Remove all the fat from the meat, and cut it into pieces. Throw it in a pot of cold water, put in a lot of salt and soda and soak it the fridgerator over night - if you're from West Virginia you can use an ice chest.
Recipes
After you've killed it (or picked up a fresh roadkill), here's a good way to cook em.
You'll need
1 Coon - fairly fresh kill
Two medium onions
teaspoon of oregano
Stove Top Dressin or make your own
Dressin' recipe
1 loaf of bread
3/4 cup chopped onion
Poultry seasoning
broth from boiled coon
sage, salt & pepper
Remove the meat from the cold salt water you should of soaked it in overnight, and put it in a pot and cover it with fresh water - add the two medium onions (chopped up) and the oregano. Boil it until it's tender.
Put the coon meat in a roasting pan, and cover it with the dressin'. Use some of the broth from the boiling to wet down the dressin. Bake at 350 until it's all done.
Coon & kraut
1 Raccoon (cut into serving pieces)
1 Pound Sauerkraut
1 Medium Apple (diced)
1 Medium Onion (diced)
1 Tablespoon caraway seeds
6 Pack of Beer
Salt
Pepper
Flour
Coat the coon meat in flour, salt, and pepper. Brown in olive oil.
In another pan, sauté the apples and onions in olive oil until their tender.
Drain and wash the sauerkraut and add it to the apples and onions along with the caraway and enough beer or cider to simmer the sauerkraut. Drink other beer's from six pack while you simmer this stuff for about 20 minutes.
Mix in raccoon pieces and place the entire mixture into a roasting pan and place in the oven at 350F for 3 hours, adding beer or cider as the mixture begins to dry out.