squirrel soup

[riverrat]

sometimes you get a small squirrel. not much meat huh? well, if you pressure cook it theres quite a bit if you take the time to pull it from the bones. if you run the liquid from the pot through a screen into another pot you now have a broth. add that squirrel meat, a glove of garlic chopped thin, chopped onions, celery, carrots, salt and pepper. i like a couple dashes of tabasco and a little chicken bullion. let cook over low heat untill veggies are cooked. then ad noodles. tell all them non wild game eating people in your house its "chicken soup" and watch as the pot disapiers. then.....tell them about your squirrel soup  . Tony

[bubby]

Your making me hungry tony sounds great

[nclonghunter]

We used to go on a camping squirrel hunt and carry a small pot with dehydrated corn,peas and carrots. The squirrels were first cooked on a stick over the fire then pulled from the bone and added to the soup that also had chicken or beef boullion. Let it slow cook on the fire for a few hours and dig in!

[TrevorM]

Sounds good! What are you straining out from the pressure cooker liquid?

[Danzn Bar]

Sounds good, you have inspired me to get a few squirrels and try it.....
DBar

[chamookman]

Sounds good to Me. Love Me some Tree Rat ! Bob

[neuse]

I had my first expeirence with a squirell a couple of weeks ago.
Homemade nutter thing on the end of POC arrow I made.

That squirell was pretty darn hard to skin and the meat was quite tough and hard to tear away from the bone.
I boiled him for almost an hour, then put him on the grill.

Do ya'll discard the male squirells due this toughness?

[stickbender]

 
     Squirrel skin is very tough!  But I have never had tough squirrel meat.  How did you cook it?  Cook it slow.  My Mother would make squirrel and dumplings.  Sometimes, she would just use cream of chicken, and flour dumplings, and the squirrel, and onions, garlic, and salt and pepper.  But there was never any left.  I don't use bullion, as it is all chemicals, and some don't even have any chicken, or beef, at all.  I just use organic, broth, or make my own.  Just try the squirrel and dumplings, and you'll love it.  Make your dumplings, how you like them.  Just don't try to cook the squirrel to fast, just like making a bow, slow and easy.  She would also fry them, and that was good, but the squirrel and dumplings were my favorite.

                                    Wayne

[jayman448]

Are squirrels ok to eat? No one worries about diseases?

[Pat B]

Jayman, you'd be surprised how many folks eat squirrel. Some folks would rather hunt squirrels than deer.

[Pappy]

Don't know of any Jayman, but now that you mentioned it that may be what's wrong with me,  ate to many squirrel's in my life. As far as tough we most time par boil them until the meat almost falls off and they are never tough even the big fox and male greys. That recipe sounds very good riverrat.
 Pappy

[riverrat]

i use a pressure cooker for squirrel if im making soup. i dont think ive ever had a tough one though. most times its on the grill or in the oven. ive been thinking on if i could make squirrel jerkey? there was a comment about what was i straining? i pull the squirrel apart on a plate the juice is left in the pressure cooker. theres a scum of sorts on the sides? i dont know what its realy called, just like boiling meat in a pot you have that frothy stuff on top. any how i strain it so thats not in my broth.then i cook it down, and down, and down lol.Tony

[Danzn Bar]

Sounds like you've done it.........
DBar