Ed Huntress wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:11:54 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
wrote:

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
...
I had an agricultural tragedy this past weekend. I have a little Red
Haven Semi-dwarf peach tree that I've been nursing along for a few
years, and it just produced its first modest peach crop: 26 beautiful
and delicious little peaches.

I was getting ready to check them for ripeness on Saturday when I saw
that my 26 peaches had been reduced to 2. There were four or five fat
squirrels running around my yard with peaches in their mouths.

My means of getting revenge are few in this densely packed suburban
neighborhood, so I thought I'd do the next best thing and publish my
all-time favorite squirrel recipe, in the hope that some of you will
shoot some of the *******s and try it. Squirrel season is in, in many
states around the country.

From _The Gourmet Cookbook, Volume II_, revised 1965:

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Squirrels in Cider

Skin, clean, and disjoint 3 plump squirrels. Soak the pieces in cold
salted water for 20 minutes, wipe them dry, and dust them with flour
seasoned with salt and pepper. In a heavy skillet brown i/4 cup diced
fat ham. Add the squirrel and brown the pieces well on all sides in
the ham fat. Add enough hard cider barely to cover the squirrel, cover
the skillet, and simmer the liquid until most of it has evaporated and
the meat is tender.

Add 2 tablespoons butter, increase the heat, and quickly brown the
pieces of meat once more. Remove the squirrel to a warm serving
platter and to the juices remaining in skillet add I cup hot cream and
stir in all the brown bits from the bottom and sides of the pan. Stir
in, bit by bit, 1/2 tablespoon flour mixed to a paste with 1
tablespoon butter, correct the seasoning with salt and pepper, and
strain the sauce into a gravy boat

[If you like this one, and I love it, I have several more recipes that
are top-notch. Eat mo' squirrel!]

--
Ed Huntress

Xisico B-50 or B-51. Pitch the stock shroud and install an RWS shroud.
Your neighbors might even ask you to shoot squirrels in their yard as well.

I'd love to, but that would land me in jail here in NJ.

I used to shoot pigeons here with my neighbors' encouragement and my
Crossman CO2 converter on my 1911 .45, but those neighbors are long
gone.

I do have a big Havahart trap, which may be my answer. But next year
I'm cutting back a border growth of little maples, which they jumped
from, and I'm installing a big cat/squirrel collar on the tree.



Ed,

With your recipe you can turn that trap into a haveameal trap

John