Hunting & Fishing Possum and Muskrat Recipes

[Bushmaster7]

Anybody out there got any good possum and/or muskrat recipes they would be willing to share? Fixin' to cook some up when I can get them. Plenty of possum left in South Jersey; but muskrat's are getting harder to find down here. The city of Elmer has a muskrat roast once a year; but getting tickets for that event is tough as well.

 

[kurt]

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Wow i would have to be really really hungry to even try that.

 

[redbullitt]

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Eh dont know any, but my grand pap made oppossum once and it was not bad at all lol.

 

[ggmanning]

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Opossum is not bad at all. You need to trap it live and "purge" it for a week with lettuce, apples, corn, etc. ...... this is important. I have only eaten it baked in a covered roasing pan. With the opossum in the pan fill it 1/2 full with water and add Lipton onion soup mix, carrots, potatoes and celery. Crock pot would be just the same. They are greasy.....and it makes for moist meat. People also fry it like chicken and make gravy from the grease. Not common table fare but decent.

 

[Playerz1337]

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I catch them all the time here, but not brave enough to try it. How would you compare it to squirrel meat?

 

[srtsam]

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LOL, C'mon Bush,
you make it sound like we live in the backwoods !!!!

 

[PJ BAD]

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Possum and muskrat are not good eats.

 

[ggmanning]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Playerz1337</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I catch them all the time here, but not brave enough to try it. How would you compare it to squirrel meat? </div></div>

Doesnt dry out cooking as easy as squirrel. Table wise they are about the same to me. Several places (churches, wildlife clubs) here in NC have wild game cooks to raise money or as a yearly oddity. You get a chance to try/prepare everything from gator to coon......depending on what everybody has in the freezer.

 

[Jig Stick]

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Put the opossum or muskrat in a wood smoker at 220 degrees. Soak a few cups of hickory wood chips in water. When the wood chips are nice and wet put them in a bowl and eat them. Discard the meat in the smoker or feed that to the dogs.

 

[Lindy]

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That recipe works for nutria, too.

 

[km71107]

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Possum? Hell no, that's a buzzard with hair

Muskrat? Dunno, it looks like a little bitty nutria rat. I've never had nutria, but I'd try it.

 

[bachelorjack]

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You don't have a "Wendys" there? We've got one here and can get a Jr. Bacon Cheese Burger for $.99 plus tax. While I suggest ordering two, cause they're kinda small, it beats the pants off your idea.

We got this other place called "McDonalds"...

 

[joe1/75th]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bushmaster7</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Anybody out there got any good possum and/or muskrat recipes they would be willing to share? Fixin' to cook some up when I can get them. Plenty of possum left in South Jersey; but muskrat's are getting harder to find down here. The city of Elmer has a muskrat roast once a year; but getting tickets for that event is tough as well. </div></div>

I heard the ass out of a dead rhino is pretty good too!

 

[shadysmitty]

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I won't eat possum because it's too greasy and is a trash animal. But muskrat should not be bad. I have eaten groundhog,or woodchuck, people call it different names. But take a young one and cook it like fried chicken and you will be impressed. They are vegetarians unlike the possum which will eat anything.

 

[RSA-Raven]

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Often I worry about you guys...

 

[usmcMT]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RSA-Raven</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Often I worry about you guys...

</div></div>Amen on that....

 

[eric long]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jig Stick</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Put the opossum or muskrat in a wood smoker at 220 degrees. Soak a few cups of hickory wood chips in water. When the wood chips are nice and wet put them in a bowl and eat them. Discard the meat in the smoker or feed that to the dogs. </div></div>

That made me laugh. It reminds me of a recipe for carp my grandmother told me: Take a carp, clean it, put it on a creosote plank. Throw away the carp and eat the plank.

 

[alibi]

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Muskrat dinners are a tradition in my area. It goes back to colonial settlers not being able to catch fish in the winter. I will stay away from the political and religious reasons. The key is to remove the musk glands when cleaning. We par boil the rats then throw them in roasters with vegetables. It's an acquired taste, similar to squirrel, but stronger.

 

[John L]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: alibi</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Muskrat dinners are a tradition in my area. It goes back to colonial settlers not being able to catch fish in the winter. I will stay away from the political and religious reasons. The key is to remove the musk glands when cleaning. We par boil the rats then throw them in roasters with vegetables. It's an acquired taste, similar to squirrel, but stronger. </div></div>

You must live in the "Downriver" area. Big time thing there in the bars on Fridays. Been a long time for me hanging at Dom Polski's. Can't say I miss the eats but the beer was cold.

 

[M25BeastShooter]

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Muskrat is a Eastern Shore of Maryland tradition. Many of the Fire houses and social clubs host the dinners also Raccoon dinners. I grew up eating muskrat and the way my mother cooked it I loved it.

As I remember it the muskrats are skinned and the head removed.
The meat quartered and as I remember par-boiled. Afterwards the meat was placed in a deep cast iron frying pan and the meat cooked with red flaked pepper till the meat falls off the bone

 

[Jon Lester]

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Possume is too greasy to fool with, but muskrat can be tasty, as it is a lean dark meat. I am not forced to speculate on this one either.

 

[kytrapper]

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I have to pass on possum... they are real scavenger and any carcass a coyote will pass on I will do like wise......

Pass on predators.. exceptions bear (omnivoir but they will prey on other critters),bobcat and Mnt Lion

From the Great Depression in the mine camps.. Possum-- Purge to get all dead stuff out of system is a must ( you would hate to eat one then find out you actually inadvertanly consume some of the dead crack head found by the river with his entrails consumed)

Any one eat rabbitt??????/ Muskrat cleaner meat than rabbitt....HOW????

How may time a day does a rabbitt bathe?? Muskrat at least 10 or 12........lol

Muskrat strictly veg and really likes roots....

Like most game is best with fat removed and when quartering them remember therer are glands located under the fore legs..much better if these are removed.... Good Luck...

 

[briscoetab]

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Can't say I've ever cooked or eaten either one but bet you could fry them and it would taste. I mean even cow testicals tasted good fried.

 

[1911fan]

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I've had muskrat stroganoff, not bad. Then again I've et a lot of weird things in my life. Raw fish/crab/shrimp, alligator, cougar (both kinds), bear, dog (tried to eat a coyote once too) bat.... Pretty much anything has been eaten by somebody, somewhere, if they were hungry enough.
Can't eat avocados though, nasty.


1911fan

 

[Jon Lester]

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Ask guys that completed SERE training. They would have loved a fat rat or possume road kill

 

[Dusty]

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If all else fails, make a gumbo out of it.

 

[briscoetab]

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Agree with dusy on making gumbo out of it too, kinda of like frying it, everything taste good in gumbo.

 

[km71107]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dusty</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If all else fails, make a gumbo out of it. </div></div>
A Yankee friend asked me one day what we put in gumbo. I told her damn near anything we can shoot, catch or run over.....except possum

 

[wrongside]

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I have never cooked it but the rats that I have ate are cooked with corn or tomato. Have had them at wild game dinners, not bad at all.

 

[excaliber]

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Mcdonald`s has a dollar menu!