zxcvbob wrote:
> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>> Here's the recipe I promised when I first posted about the
>> freebies.........FYI a link on the Today Show's website has a whole
>> list of 'free' sites that you can get 'stuff' from.
>>
>>
>>
>> No real proportions given. You are to eyeball the size of the possum
>> and go with the flow. I added in parenthesis what I 'thought' might
>> be an ideal.
>>
>>
>> Skin a possum, clean, removing entrails and glands. Scrape and scald
>> in boiling water. Salt and pepper inside and out. Make a mixture of
>> bread crumbs, chestnuts and applesauce (1/2 cup each?) in equal
>> amounts. Stuff this mixture in the possum. Cover with sweet potatoes
>> (3 pounds, peeled and diced), 1 cup water and 1/2 cup of lemon juice.
>> Bake in butter and baste often. Bake until tender.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Now: to hunt possum.....you will need a pick up truck and a shovel.
>>
>> -ginny
>>
>>
>
>
> Aren't they awfully greasy? Stuffing, and basting with butter both seem
> like bad ideas.
>
> Bob

Not only that they're carrion feeders. My Mom made us bring them home
live, then she put them in a rabbit cage and fed them rabbit chow for a
month to cleanse them. I still didn't like them, greasy, tough and
unappealing. Besides, I think Ginny was yanking our chain with her
reference to road kill.