Recipe

Baked Opossum Recipe

	Linebb956 / All my dishes 10 months ago Found this for real in a REAL OLD cookbook from the 1920's. NO I HAVE NOT TESTED IT.. It is a HAHA. Prep:60m Cook:60m Servings:4	Linebb956
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Ingredients

1 Oppossum

3 Sweet Potatoes

1 Onion

Directions

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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Comments

krumkake 10 months ago said:
Hmmmm - wonder if this would work for raccoon, or maybe chipmunk or prairie dogs? All they need is a good marinade.......

linebb956 10 months ago said:
Zena824 dared me to do this, when I told her I had found the recipe...

zena824 10 months ago said:
Hey I know where theres a goat we can rope and try this on..... hahahaha.....

angelgal 10 months ago said:
OMG!! This is priceless!! Honestly, we had neighbors once who hit an oppossum with their car, stopped, picked it up, took it home and cooked it!!! And the frightening part is, you could smell it cooking through their open window, and it smelled good!! LOL And no, I did NOT try it!!!

thepiggs 10 months ago said:
I've had BBQd coon but that was when I was very young and didn't have ANY better sense.
I survived so it must not have been toxic.
We should look up recipes for ground hogs, too. And beaver.
Cleavered Beaver
Brown Grog Ground Hog...

sweetwords 10 months ago said:
As a Southerner, you should know that any time you actually cook this animal, it automatically becomes a Possum. 'Course in Texas, things may be different. *sniff*

trackwidow 10 months ago said:
OMG! Of course it doesn't exactly tell you how you are to kill this critter, now does it? Are you supposed to just know how to do that? Wow! I wonder what kind of wine you would serve?

thepiggs 10 months ago said:
I would say that Boone Farm wine would do and the possum might be roadkill.....

chefjeb 10 months ago said:
Hey, read the recipe. You've got to get a live possum so you can pin it up for a week and feed it corn to clean it out. Do you know what possums eat? And be careful. Possums will rip you apart. They have razor sharp teeth and claws and will use them. I have a book of old Tennessee mountain recipes and there is this comment: "The poosum is prized for its light colored, tender meat. Before cooking, remove the scent glands in small of back and under each foreleg between the shoulder and rib. Also remove excess fat before baking." Hope this helps, and no you don't cook a racoon like this. racoon is cooked different. Coon hunters hunt around here every night.

coffeebean53 10 months ago said:
After moving to North Carolina from Arizona I wanted to become reacquainted with Southern cooking, but I'm not sure I want to become that reacquainted. LOL!!!

alaskanmom 10 months ago said:
I'd just skip the keeping it in a cage and feeding it, road kill should do just fine. As long as it's fresh. But I'd have to try this using porcupine, no possums here!(LOL) Thanks for posting will bookmark this one(NOT!)

helewes 10 months ago said:
Rather eat a old boot with salt and pepper. I would not have fit in back then... as I'm a Vet Tech an animal rescuer,& rehabilitator. Hypersensitive too :>)

pudgy47 10 months ago said:
Priceless!!!!!!!!!~!!!!!``~~~~

linebb956 10 months ago said:
Jeb.... you are so funny...No ones going to eat this now days. It was a joke to get people awake, to smell the roses, to laugh .. Out of our ruts we get into everyday!

trackwidow 10 months ago said:
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...

cjbarash 10 months ago said:
Wow - I wonder if you could do armadillos the same way? Might go good with applesauce and PLENTY of your sangria. :) CJ

linebb956 10 months ago said:
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

flavors 10 months ago said:
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

dixiejet 9 months, 4 weeks ago said:
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 !!!

zena824 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Linda... you woke folks up with this recipe for sure....LOL..

cowboy_00 8 months, 3 weeks ago said:
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

heatherbudapest 8 months, 2 weeks ago said:
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)

nanny 8 months, 1 week ago 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!!!

sparow64 7 months ago said:
ROFLMAO! This is priceless!! I'm thinking you may have uncovered Granny Clampett's long lost recipe!! So glad you posted this. How fun!!

mystic_river1 7 months ago 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.

debbie919 6 months, 4 weeks ago said:
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

tnacndn 6 months, 3 weeks ago said:
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

dugger 6 months, 2 weeks ago said:
LOL, this would go well as an appetizer for my stuffed Guinea Pig recipe.

jett2whit 2 months ago said:
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

country5cook 1 month ago said:
I was horrified when I saw the title,haha.Thank goodness this isn't the real deal..lol too funny

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