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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I just looked at the cookbook. I can give you a Possum Dip, A Tennessee Possum Soup and Pot Passer Possum and Sweet Taters.
For those not in the south, sweet taters are sweet potatoes or yams.
Also in the cookbook are Frog legs, Crayfish, Grunion, Goat, Rabbit, Deer, Wild Boar Tongue and even a Groundhog. Here is one other one for you. Stock Market Beef Tips with Hot Gopher Gravy.
Note: most of the cookbook is actually great sounding home style southern recipes.
If you would like I can check my "road kill" cookbooks for your stuffed possum.
Oh hi, I guess I should introduce myself, I am Cindy and I started collecting cookbooks in 1991. The count is roughly 1500 total. Not including the 100 or so gourmet type cookbooks I gave my brother.  |
Ack!
Thanks for the offer, but I . . . uh . . . don't feel worthy enough to accept your gracious . . . er . . . gift of recipes for possum. That's it--I'm just
not worthy. hahaha
The sweet potatoes/yams recipe is fine. But, they're yummy cooked just like they are, without any doctoring up.
Grunion . . . never heard of it. Since the Clampets were from the mountains (Ozarks?) of Arkansas, and I'm not very familiar with that area, maybe that's the reason.
Frog legs are fine--just not enough meat for the amount of trouble, on the ones that I've eaten before. Crayfish/crawfish are delish. Had a couple of pounds of them at a good restaurant in south Louisiana when I was passing through there a few months back. Beef tips, sans the gopher gravy is fine, too. I'll pass on the rest, except for maybe the goat and rabbit.
I've got to tell Mobilereaders about "pot passers," if they're not familiar with the
Beverly Hillbillies. The Clampets moved into the mansion; the mansion was pre-furnished with a pool table. The Clampets, of course, didn't know what it was for, but they used it as a table to eat at. They decided that the pool sticks were for passing the pots of "vittles" (food) around, so Jed notched the sticks to hold the handles of the pots while they were being passed around. Funny stuff. Why can't they make shows like that anymore? Oh, the show was canceled by CBS, the network on which it was shown, because the suits at the network didn't like the fact that it had come to be known as the "Country Broadcasting Network" due to this show,
Green Acres,
Petticoat Junction, and others being in the network's show lineup at the same time. A case where a corporation definitely wasn't putting profits first!