Coon cooking-remove two bean looking glands under rear legs, pop in a
spackle bucket of salt water over night or better 24 hours- pop in hot
smoker around 300 good to build a deflector to drain fat away from the fire
to avoid conflagration. PS always check that dish to pass your heading off
to is not vegetarian only fare, I didn't check and was greeted with a muted
hello from the moosewood type crowd. Try this at home kids! happy new year
creighton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deb Bledsoe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [BP] Coon huntin'


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ruth Barton" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Coon huntin'
>
>
> > Up here we eat coon.  I haven't had it for quite a while but when we
used
> > to have Game Suppers they always served coon as well as venison and
bear.
> >
> > As I understand it the rules of coon huntin' say that the person who
owns
> > the dog gets to invite whoever he wants to come along.  I always wanted
to
> > go but my uncle said I couldn't because it was a buddy of his that owned
> > the dog and he hadn't invited me.  Probably just an excuse.  Ruth
> >
>
> Ruth,
>
> out here in southwestern ohio, some folks eat raccoon also; it tends to be
> people who are from the south originally...
> as with all "specialty meats", the proper preparation and cooking includes
> extensive salt soaking and cleaning of the carcass and the addition of
lots
> of hotsauce...
>
> your uncle wasn't making excuses; as you are not an appendage person, you
> weren't invited -
> coon hunting is mostly just a way for the mens to get out of the house and
> away from the rules of the womenfolk...
> they sit around a big camp fire, cuss, pass a jar of white liquor, piss on
> the trees, tell whatever kind of jokes they want, maybe play a little
banjo
> and guitar
>
> meanwhile, the dogs are baying off over the hill in the dark
> it is a sweet sound, when they aren't too close, and it usually takes til
> the wee hours before they tree the coon
>
> I was fortunate enough to have a dad who thought I should have been a boy,
> and so was carried along to a coonhunt when I was about 11, and old enough
> to know to sit quiet off in the shadows and just watch and listen...
> my early education was quite thorough
>
> deb
>
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