boardman%cancer.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (03/29/91)
>In article <443@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> nvuxl!gjb@bellcore.bellcore.com (G. Blanchard) writes: >Does anyone have a recipe for woodchuck? I'd guess that they would >be good eating since their main diet is clover (and gardens) but >I've never heard of anyone eating them. I learned to hunt & shoot by hunting woodchucks in upstate N.Y., but we never considered eating one (my mom would have shot me if I'd brought one back home). I do remember seeing a recipe in one of the FOXFIRE books - these books were a series of "how-to" articles documenting appalachian (sp?) mountain folklore - one of them even had a long chapter on different moonshining still designs & operational procedures. Not having actually eaten one, I can't vouch for the recipe - I do know from experience that some published game recipes aren't worth the paper they were printed on, but if anyone figured out how to make a woodchuck edible, it would probably be the West Virginia mountain folk. I suspect the secret (as with some other kinds of game) is to start with a young, tender one. At least is was a real recipe rather than the humorous type such as: >Recipe: 1 shovel, preferrably a spade > Stuff woodchuck back down its hole and fill in completely If you locate it & try it, I'd be interested in your impressions. Sometimes things turn out better than one would expect! (For example, Sandhill Crane is quite tasty when properly prepared - there is a limited season on lesser sandhills here in New Mexico). I've also eaten Mountain Lion (cougar) and it's not bad either, dispite what some think of cats! Good Luck. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | They can register my guns when they pry them out of my cold, dead fingers! | | - Bob Boardman, Albuquerque, NM (where we can LEGALLY have loaded&concealed| | guns in our cars) internet:(boardman@unmb.unm.edu) bitnet:(BOARDMAN@UNMB) | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=