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Ok who is going to try this and let the rest of us know
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03-04-2007 #1
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My buddy and I went out for a long ride yesterday, the bunnies were reclusive, the ptarmies were flighty, but, we came upon a clutch of Porkies and I had heard for years how good they were to eat and I was itching for some fresh meat and a little diversity from my moose/grouse/salmon diet. So, we took one and skinned it out, gave the pelt to friends for handicrafts, but, I am curious as to the best way to cook it up. The flesh seems very very tender and dark red....and the animal was the least stinky thing, inside and out that I have ever processed so my hopes are very very high, just lookin for some ideas from those who have eaten one of these guys and how best to do it. Thanks.
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Haven't eaten them in years because of location, but did so regularly most of my life. We ate them any of three ways most of the time.
For big groups we stuffed the chest cavity with dressing and veggies just like a turkey, but covered the whole works with foil for baking to keep it from drying out. About a half hour before serving, pull off the foil, brush with butter, turn up the heat and brown lightly.
If you cut them up more or less like a chicken, roll the pieces in flour, dip them in egg, then roll them in cracker crumbs and fry like chicken. The cracker crumbs won't stick if you don't do the flour and egg thing first.
Finally we would fillet the meat off, cut it in strips and chunks and do much the same thing, turning out something like "chicken tenders" in the process. Last time we did it, I experimented with Shake and Bake and the oven rather than frying, and I have to say it was probably better due to the seasonings.
Don't remember the details, but my grandmother used to use it instead of chicken in "chicken and dumplings" and in pot pies. Really good, and the memory makes me wish I lived a little closer to porkies once again!
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One way I used to cook them was stick the cut up meat, after marinating them for a few hours, was to stick them in the barrel stove on a grate after the fire had died way down, leaving the damper wide open. This tended to take away the gamey taste, especially on winter porkies, who are eating more spruce needles and spruce bark than during the milder months.
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03-04-2007 #4
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Growing up in the Upper peninnusla of Michigan we had lots of porkies and my grand mother prefeered them to just about any other meal. Roastig or frying them works great but do'nt forget stewed yummmy. And you have'nt eaten till you've had porkie pasties( a little round finlander meat pie)
1) Grind up the meat. 2) Add cubed carrots potatoes rootabaga(gotta have this one no substitutions allowed, pastie pureists say the vegies should be shreded on a coarse chess grater) and alittle onion.3) Add salt and peper and just enough lard to make the ingreediance stick together(dont over do this one).4) Put a softball size portion of the mixture on a pie crust fold the crust over the mixture and pinch edges closed.5) Bake at 325 till crust is nice golden brown color. About 45min to an hour depending on how big you make them you can ussually get 6-8 pasties out of a nice size porkie.
This recipe works for any game meat especially venison. I made venison hart pasties for my wife and I on our secound date. It was x-mass time and Rudalph the red nosed raindeer was on the tube while we were eating My wife said "I supose I should feel alittle guilty but I just cant these are soo good."
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