Tonight 8.30pm Channel 4 where it shows the Boars Head Hotel in Windermere cooking a real live squirrel (well, dead actually) in Peking Sauce & Pancakes!!!!
Sorry for the late notice!!

:O I'll have to watch it. Sounds... lovely?

Did it sound as if it would be especially tasty? I have talked to an acquaintance, who's actually EATEN squirrel (she grew up in the southern United States), and she tells me that there are a few tricks to preparing squirrel (removing glands from the legs and such), or else they are not very good.

Kingfisher

What a shame I missed it! It would of been interesting to see how they compared to the competition entries

What was the show like?

Considering that I do not like cookery programmes this still appealed to me even apart from the novelty factor of cooking squirrie. It is the last one next week & I shall certainly being tuning in.
The squirrel was gutted skinned & prepared , then they made a plum sauce from wild plums & spices . The squirrel was shredded (like duck) laid on a pancake, covered with plum sauce & finely chopped spring onions. Then they cut the pancakes into sections & served end on as a canape. The squirrel was actually well recieved & pronounced a hit & like they said it is no different than other 'game'.
MMmm looked & sounded delicious but I am still not that brave.

Here's a few pics especially for Kingfisher not being in the UK.
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This post was last modified: 18-10-2007 01:48 PM by tibbar.

Well, it does sound good! Of course, the wild plum sauce covers a multitude of sins.

Over the years, I have eaten bear, elk, blacktail deer, whitetail deer, moose, caribou, pronghorn, and wild boar. Many of these meats can be purchased at markets specialising in wild game (some of them are actually farm raised, others were obtained from people had had hunted them).

The caribou was not especially good (it has a strong taste, partially due to the caribou's diet of lichens), but the rest of the meats were quite acceptable. The bear in particular was a surprise--it has the texture of corned beef, and tastes just like a mild version of beef. This was from a bear which had been eating just vegetation, however, I've been told that bears which have been eating carrion or salmon are excrutiatingly foul tasting.

What can I say, I will try almost anything once... .

Kingfisher

hello
i have been given food to eat and you have to guess what it was and i was suprised how things can be very tastey like eel, dogfish,squirrel etc, but there was a programme a few weeks back and they were showing how some one ate roadkill, fox, badger,deer,etc,but i would think things like fox, and badger is a very risky thing to eat.?

I have seen a programme about eating roadkill & I wonder if it was the same . This guy fed his friend squirrel in that.

I am not entirely certain I would want to eat roadkill foxes (here at least they would be suspected of harbouring rabies), but in the US, some state prison systems feed roadkilled deer to their inmates, and it was routine to do so right up until the 1960s.

In some states in the US, it is legal for a hunter to 'tag' a roadkilled deer. However, as I understand it, it's not especially appetising, because a deer hit by a vehicle has withstood a tremendous impact, and the flesh around the impact is literally 'bloodshot'. Meat in that condition is not very edible.

Kingfisher