Thread: cooking question

One of my friends mother made them for us when we were young. She's passed on and I never got her recipe but I did find this one that sounded pretty good.
Old Fashioned Squirrel and Dumplings | Realtree Camo

No better way I know of for dumplings . Par boil hind quarters and use rest in gumbo at the end of season about the only way we cook them .

I have got a pressure cooker that I used a lot. If u got one I would cook the squirrels first then pull all the meat off bone then add to the dumplings. The pressure cooker will make them so tender.
LittleJohn

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Hey Murdok,
I'll try to keep this from being long- winded...
Have enjoyed squirrel huntin since I was a youngster.
My Grandma made awfully good stew squirrel bless her heart.
I used to do my best to separate the fryers from the stewers.Fryers skin easily and their bones easily break when you are cleaning them.Stewers are harder to skin and the bones are harder to break.
Sometimes you will mistake one for the other as you can have a fairly large squirrel that is young or a kinda small outfit that is old.
Anyhow when I go to fry/stew them it becomes real easy to tell them apart once I get started .

I like to use Laurie's seasoned salt and pepper then flour. I fry both for 14 minutes in a fry daddy.The fry squirrels will flex easily when you try to bend them at the joints.The stew squirrels will not flex at all.Separate your fryers as it is time to sit down and enjoy them.
The stew squirrels take a little time but come out real enjoyable also.Wal-Mart sells gravy mixes that will say "peppered white",or "milk gravy mix". Each package makes 2 cups of gravy normally.You will need 3 or 4 packages and you need to mix them each with 3 (instead of 2)cups of water to make the gravy as it needs to start thin and will be"right " later.Once you follow the gravy package directions(except 3 cups of water) put the gravy in a crock pot (3 or 4 packages of gravy) along with the stew squirrels.Turn the crock pot on low and let her go 3 or 4 hours.You want it tender but not falling off the bones.
I kill 150 to a little over 200 squirrels a year and send their tails to Mepps fishing lures in Wisconsin to exchange for lures.They have sent me a lot of lures through the years.
Hope this recipe will help you...

Now that sounds like a fun trip. We've been having fun taking the dogs the last couple weekends

Rats, squirrels....what’s the difference??


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