Hunting & Fishing Eating Tree Rats, Groundhogs, and Whistlepigs

[coldboremiracle]

Anybody have any good recipes or suggestions? I've killed far too many Marmots to not give it a try, and last night I got me a tender little fellow who is bound for a pot.

 

[deltawiskey]

Tree rats I like to boil briefly, pull them out of the water, rub them with bacon grease (out a the jar I keep in the fridge) and season with garlic and pepper. Then I brown them on the grill.

 

[MtnCreek]

Parboil squirrel (geys here in GA). Skim the nasty foamy crap off as it boils.

From there you can cut up, dip in egg/buttermilk, bread (cornmeal with a little flour and salt) and pan fry. Redneck dipping sauce made from ketchup and horseradish goes good with it.

Or remove meat from bone and make dumplings. You'll need to add fat (crisco works fine) to the dumplings because the broth does not have enough. Roll the dumpling out thin because they swell when cooked. Add the meat after the dumplings are done.

 

[coldboremiracle]

I had considered boiling them first, then grillling them, sounds like you guys have had good luck that way. I also had considered pulling the meat off the bones and making BBQ sammiches or something.

 

[Caveman0101]

I would not handle the prairie dogs or whistle pigs, every year here in Colorado people are infected with the plague from their flees. But southern grey and red squirrels, I grew up on them, my dad still loves them in a stew or fried, he eats the brains also.

 

[coldboremiracle]

I would not handle the prairie dogs or whistle pigs, every year here in Colorado people are infected with the plague from their flees. But southern grey and red squirrels, I grew up on them, my dad still loves them in a stew or fried, he eats the brains also.

Ive been handling these for years, very rarely see any fleas on them. Maybe Im all plagued out??‍