Roast Opossum with Yams

[Westlakedrive]

To prepare opossum, clean but do not skin. Immerse in water just below the boiling point. When hair pulls out easily remove from water. Scrape off hair while washing repeatedly with cool water. Remove small red glands in the small of back and under eash foreleg between the shoulder and rib. If the the opossume appears to be full grown, it should be precooked in simmering salted water for about 1 hour. Then remove from water and wipe dry. Season inside with salt and pepper. Stuff lightly with buttered crumbs seasoned with diced cooked bason and onions. Sew opening. Place in open roasting pan. Surround with peeled raw sweet potatoes. Roast in preheated moderate oven (350) for 1.5 hours or until potatoes and meat are tender. Baste occasionally with melted butter mixed with a little Worcestershire, salt and pepper. Makes 6-8 servings.

Yum Yum.

[wally-eye]

Dang Wes, you could have went all year without posting that. YUCK....:Protest_e

Now go sit in the corner till you're told its time to leave......

[LittleMan]

well ill try it, get me a 'possum

[Gold Digger]

Wow - at 1st it sounded gross, but after finding a fresh road kill opposum and following instructions to the T... turned out pretty dam good!

Thanks!

[2PawsRiver]

I spent three years in the orient and have ate some unusual things, but theres no way I would eat a possum:lol: :lol:

[Westlakedrive]

Just like your momma said. Dont knock it til you try it.
;)

[Overdew]

:dizzy: yuck!

[Natlight]

Wow - at 1st it sounded gross, but after finding a fresh road kill opposum and following instructions to the T... turned out pretty dam good!

Thanks!
:tdo12: :sick: :sick:

[PrtyMolusk]

Howdy-

Ummm.........

......pass the stuffed deer nose, please. ;)

[Mister ED]

Wes -

How dare you post the favorite food of Hespertuckians!! What next, you give away their secret fish .... da' sucka?

Wally-Eye - Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.

[wally-eye]

Ed: I "DON'T" live that close to Hespertucky. I'll stick with White Cloud and the carp patties......much more pleasing on the palate.

Then again I have had some pretty strange tasting things cross these lips...at least it tasted like fish anyways. Just can't do the Hespertucky city mascot thing.

[MGV]

Makes my skin crawl..... And to think i am on lunch break. Now the food looks terrible........ But if someone cooked it would have try it just so i can say i tried.

[Rustyaxecamp]

There are certain things that you know probably taste bad, and they do, but there's always someone who loves it.

I will eat most anything, but I don't expect possum to be worth cleaning. Not saying I wouldn't try it. Did that with muskrat. Once is enough....

I would think the tail is where the real sweet meat on a possum would be...:corkysm55 or maye the little pads on their feet.....;)

[wally-eye]

Over in my neck of the woods most of the locals pickle the eye balls. It ain't my thing but I ain't never tried them either.

[Fecus]

Tough little bugers they are. Encountered a disgruntal one in my garage. Got out the air rifle and put one in its head. My old Benjamin .20 is rated for 800 fps. Took 3 more shots to put him down but not out, I let him be. Next morning followed drops of blood back to his haunt under my deck. A week later I could smell him.

In my city there was an old bounty on these critters, I heard that it is still in affect.

Took a lickin and kept tickin

[Westlakedrive]

That recipe is from an encyclopedia of cookery under a chapter entitled american cookery. Recipes are listed by state. This particular recipe is listed under the state of Arkansas. :lol:

As for possum being tough I remember one in our barn growing up.
Took my sling shot to it. After I had it good and stunned I got out the pitch fork and went to town. Went back the next day and it was gone. :yikes:

[Rustyaxecamp]

Many a grinner has went to that garbage can in the sky thanks to my boot. They're not that tough.

[Munsterlndr]

I remember reading someplace that in the South they used to catch Possum and then keep them in a cage and feed them persimmons for a couple of weeks before butchering them. It was supposed to fatten them up and improve the taste of the meat quite a bit. Don't know if it's true or not and not something I plan on trying out. :)

[PITBULL]

Thets the thang bout possum innerds, Theys just as good the second day.

[devo024]

I would pay cash to see someone eat a possum. Let me set the trap out tonight and Ill have one of those stupid suckers tomorrow morning for someone!!:help:

[slayer]

Let me guess tastes like chicken right ? :sick: :coco:

[PITBULL]

I would pay cash to see someone eat a possum. Let me set the trap out tonight and Ill have one of those stupid suckers tomorrow morning for someone!!:help:


HOW MUCH YOU GOT????


Fear factor never scared me.

[MGV]

Is there front row seats forsale also? This will be good. Find a good city possum so they the meat will smell real good.

[Raf]

i would definately try it if someone else were eating it and liked it but that is one animal i do not even like to see.

[Fecus]

To cook possum, boil it with a rock. As soon as you can get a fork in the rock the possum is done:corkysm55

[wally-eye]

Yup then toss the grinner and eat the rock. Much better eatin.

[DangerDan]

You guys joke all you want but I gotta tell ya,
possum frikaseed with corn flour is the absolute greatest... Served with Turnips & greens You'll be in shear heaven. :corkysm55 :corkysm55

[MGV]

Boy you guys make me hungrey for Christmas lunch and dinner. That rock will look great on the platter in the middle of the table.

[CL-Lewiston]

A long time ago my Grandfather cooked the ones I caught-mostly small yearlings. I had to skin them but we ate them-dont knock it till you tried it.

[sean]

No way!, I would rather bob for turds in my cats litter box than eat a opposum.:tdo12: Those things creep me out and are hideous little critters. I might try just about anything but opposum aint one of em.:D

[PITBULL]

No way!, I would rather bob for turds in my cats litter box than eat a opposum.:tdo12:


I'll Take the Possum please.

[glockman55]

Some will eat just about anything, I don't think I could eat possum. Nasty little critters, They eat their own road kill.:lol: I'm sure skunk is good if cooked right.:16suspect

[sean]

I'll Take the Possum please.

:lol: :lol:

[SwingShift]

There are too many good eating critters in the woods to be eating road rats. :dizzy:

[Bachflock]

15 full months after this was orig. posted you'd think it'd just die and go away. However, I can't help but say that I'd have to be pretty freaking hungry to eat possum!

[PITBULL]

15 full months after this was orig. posted you'd think it'd just die and go away. However, I can't help but say that I'd have to be pretty freaking hungry to eat possum!

Possums post are like Twinkies, You can take one and put it on a shelf. Go back years later and it still looks good, but it just taste a little funny:)

[offwhiteknight]

I know this thread is pretty old, so I hope y'all don't mind me throwin my two cents in. For now, this recipe would go in the "I hope I'm never that hungry" category, but my grandfather has told me many stories about growing up in the hill country of KY around the depression, and he says that there were no deer, rabbits, squirrels etc. in the county he lived in because people shot and ate anything that moved. With the economy being what it is , it seems like a good idea to me to know how to prepare animals you wouldn't normally hunt, just in case. And yeah Grandpa says he has eaten possum, but claims he dosen't remember what it was like.