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Pond Wanderer said:

>>>>> Do you mind if I make a copy of one of your recipes and sell it at the coffee morning in aid of saving red squirrels?

I think that is a great idea. You might want to contact the publisher for permission before selling, because both recipes are from the White Trash cookbook, which is well within copyright. Where I posted recipes (posts 91586 and 91624) I gave the reference. Here is the info again, with a bit more detail so you can get reprint permission.

Title: The Treasury of White Trash Cooking
Author: Earnest Matthew Mickler and Trisha Mickler
Publisher: 10 Speed Press
Copyright: 2002
Page numbers: 157 and 158
Description: Recipes for Squirrels a la king and Hunting camp stew

That's everything you'll need to fill out the permission request form at http://www.tenspeed.com/resources/rights.htm

I'm pretty sure the authors would be tickled pink to know their recipes were being put to use in England. Good luck with your endeavor, and do keep me posted.

is that the same recipe?

I didn't see no recipe.

AWESOME! Except not for the grey squirrels. But still, that's one way of getting rid of the grey squirrels, now classified as pest in England since they are invaders.
Yesh, we went to Windmere and the Lake District this summer, signs everywhere about Grey vs. Red

Hi Pond Wanderer,

Yes, this recipe appears on page 157 of the White Trash cookbook:

Squirrels a la King

Soak 2 dressed squirrels in salt water overnight to freshen them up. An hour or two before dinner, wash them rascals in 2 changes of cool water. Throw them in a kettle with enough water to cover. Add the 2 halves of an onion, some celery, salt, and pepper; then bring to a boil. Skim the surface foam from the bubbling stew and let it simmer until done. Drain and dry the squirrels. Then split them down the back and brown the 4 halves in a buttered skillet until golden brown.

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This recipe appears on page 158 of the White Trash cookbook:

Hunting Camp Stew

4 squirrels, or 2 chickens
1/2 lb raw bacon
1 large can stewed tomatoes
3 lbs potatoes
4 large bell peppers
1 small can English peas
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 can corn
2 pounds onions, chopped
1 pound crisp bacon
Dash of hot sauce (optional)

Cut the meat into small pieces and simmer it with raw bacon in enough water to cover. Cook until the meat separates from the bone. Take out the bones and add the rest of your ingredients. Let the stew simmer for 4 to 5 hours, or even overnight in a crockpot. You can add hot sauce to the stew if you like with a little zest. "It's better than snuff, and not half as dusty."

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If you need to reprint squirrel recipes before you can get permission, any stew, pot-pie, pan-fried, casserole or other meat recipe will do. Squirrels eat nuts and seeds, and therefore taste great. I suppose if they live in some industrial area somewhere, they might possibly get into something untoward, but in any rural or suburban area they should be perfectly delicious. Of course, as with any wild game, cook squirrel meat thoroughly, and if the animal looks unhealthy or behaves strangely, don't eat it.

Here are other sources of squirrel recipe inspiration I found using Google:

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir.html
http://www.jerrysbaitandtackle.com/Recipes/Squirrel.htm
http://www.bowhunting.net/susieq/squirrel.html
http://www.huntingsociety.org/SquirrelRecipes.html

Squirrel recipe society? I hadn't realised there were so many!

Tip: When saving red squirrels, remember to burp your Tupperware before it goes in the freezer.

Peet! Burp your Tupperware? I've lost Gabriel. I'm sure I saw her brother earlier

I've burped a baby once, does that count?

"signs everywhere of grey vs. Red."

I've only heard of Grey vs. Blue (the US Civil War) and Red vs Blue (http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/home.php).

When I went for a walk in the woods today I got lost, I was upset until I saw a red squirrel, the first for several months, I was pleased to see it because they had been missing there. Most likely thanks to all the people who have put in so much time and effort to support and try to save these lovely creatures.

To be honest, I don't think I fancy eating grey squirrel pie, am looking into how we might be able to stop the grey squirrel pox as well.

Is that like a new strain of chicken pox or something like that?

1) Red vs Blue looks fun. It put me in mind of two old games, Paranoia and SpaceQuest.

2) At the risk of being perfectly serious on the No, No, No thread:

Well, I don't know anything at all about the red, other than the tiny bit I saw following the link Pond Wanderer provided. I got that the grey is an invader to GB, just as these rotten good-for-nothing starlings are invaders from GB. They take over habitat from native birds just as greys are doing to reds over there. At least there is good eating on greys, there is absolutely no use for starlings. But I got the idea.

I am not a veterinarian, so don't know anything about squirrel pox, but if there are very few (or no) greys in an area, it seems that the chance of a red contracting a disease from a grey would be quite small. Is there a cure for this pox?

As to the recipes, well, I think it shows good, slightly twisted humor to sell grey squirrel recipes to fund the cause to save the native species. However I hardly expect most folks these days to suddenly get the idea that meat comes from anyplace other than the market. Even in more rural areas like this one, few people hunt anymore. It's probably a blessing, I used to live near an area frequented by hunters. Most are responsible, but a few are completely irresponsible and should not be permitted near firearms.

BEING SERIOUS ON NO NO NO!!? USING LOGIC!!? WHAT ARE YOU, SANE!?

How dare you insinuate that I am in full possession of my faculties?

Insinuating that I'm insinuating is the logical thing to do!

Logic?

Isn't Logic all that proposition, converse, contrapositive stuff? I think I had a course of that interspersed with beers once upon a time.

Here's a poem for you Nerd

It is true that you make me laugh and you make me smile
I'll leave you now to dream a while.

have a nice day!

"there is absolutely no use for starlings"

You wouldn't say that if you were in the middle of a plague of locusts! The starlings pick insects off your crops and convert them to starling doo-doo, which acts as a fertiliser.