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BAKED OPOSSUM Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Pen the opossum up in a cage
  • Feed him corn for a week
  • Skin and dress him
  • Place him in a deep pan
  • Place potatoes around him
  • cut onion on top of him
  • Pour water around him half way up
  • Place lid on pan and bake for 1 hour at 350
  • Serve on a platter with potatoes.
  • Should I say....ENJOY?

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  • hungryjohn 15 years ago
    When I was a kid we had a neighbor who hunted possums, penned 'em up just like it sez to do, and cooked 'em, although I don't know how because it was already on the table ready to eat when I saw it. But it was probably cooked a lot like this recipe and it was among the best things I've ever tasted.
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  • lovesusagi 15 years ago
    when i was little , i had a DOG THAT WOULD CORNER POSSUMS , I WOULD GRAB IT BY THE TAIL , CARRY IT TO THE house , and my grandmother would chop off its head , gut it and bake it that was the most tasty delicacy i have ever eaten in my life !!!
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  • sas 15 years ago
    By the way I think Curly made this for Moe once.
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  • sas 15 years ago
    This should be served with a Chateau Lafite-Rothschild Pauillac 1959. They compliment one another with the greatest respect.
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  • country5cook 16 years ago
    I was horrified when I saw the title,haha.Thank goodness this isn't the real deal..lol too funny
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  • jett2whit 16 years ago
    Oh my goodness! My husband grew up in Perry, GA and his grandmother raised him on possum, squirrel and rabbit. He hasn't made any of these dishes for me tho'!! They say the "good comes from the wood" If you were to meet my husband,you would never know he grew up the way he did. What a catch! We've been together for 20 years!! Jett
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  • dugger 16 years ago
    LOL, this would go well as an appetizer for my stuffed Guinea Pig recipe.
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  • tnacndn 16 years ago
    Oh Lordy woman and people think I am a hillbilly. LOL This reminds me of the guy who first started calling me Gem, we would be out riding around in his old pick up truck and see a possom that had been run over and he would always say "Hey, hows about a possum sammich"...so yucky..LOL To this day every time I see a dead possum that is what I hear in my head. LOL
    Gem
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  • debbie919 16 years ago
    OK, I'll admit it - this lil Texas gal grew up in a very tiny rural town, and a great-aunt of mine actually fed me 'possum and sweet taters once...I was probably 5 or so, and don't remember it being especially good...However, I raised a baby possum when I was a teenager, and he was the sweetest thing! (But we didn't eat him ) lol
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    " It was excellent "
    mystic_river1 ate it and said...
    The point here is for you and the possum to get really drunk;get out your quitar and lull the opposum to sleep...once he is snoring and you are really looped, stoke up the fire, and stuff him with corn. Put him on the spit and stand back.
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  • sparow64 16 years ago
    ROFLMAO! This is priceless!! I'm thinking you may have uncovered Granny Clampett's long lost recipe!! So glad you posted this. How fun!!
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    " It was excellent "
    nanny ate it and said...
    I love this recipe.Not only is it great for a laugh at the recipe but that you have actual directions on how to kill the poor thing!!!!My better half went for years to family functions with a pie and a coon tail and told the kids now adults that it was possum pie!Now I will print this out for all those poor kids.Thank you so much for a great laugh.Love those who dont take life so serious!!!
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  • heatherbudapest 16 years ago
    What is totally priceless is the use of "him" (rather than "it") throughout the recipe, even once the animal has been killed. What was the cookbook!? I'm so curious . . . (anthropology students want to know)
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  • cowboy_00 16 years ago
    substituiting armadilla as your meat source will really open up a whole new world of taste sensation using this recipe......mouth is watering as I type
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  • zena824 16 years ago
    Linda... you woke folks up with this recipe for sure....LOL..
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  • dixiejet 16 years ago
    Linebb956, you don't say anything about killing the possum ! ROTFLOL!!!!! This is HILARIOUS !!! And to think of all the possums I let "slide" by while I lived in Louisiana all those years !!!
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  • flavors 16 years ago
    This was great fun to read not only the recipe but all the comments. I nearly peed in my pants. I laughed so hard. As a family we see road kill and wonder gee we're going to eat good tonight kinfolk. Thanks for such a laugh.
    MJ
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  • linebb956 16 years ago
    Just have to try it... look it up on the net.. too funny, you could use his shell to put you DIP in... Melted butter and garlic! LMAO
    Linda
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  • cjbarash 16 years ago
    Wow - I wonder if you could do armadillos the same way? Might go good with applesauce and PLENTY of your sangria. :) CJ
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  • trackwidow 16 years ago
    We have all kinds of critters around here, including possum. I see them all of the time, both live and as road kill. I still don't think I will be making this anytime soon, no matter how desperate I get...
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