recipe for groundhog cooked with spicebush
Posted: September 23, 2011 Filed under: uncategorized 5 Comments »“This is a recipe that my Mother-in-law taught me how to cook ground hog.
Dress and cut it up. Put in pot, then bring to boil.* Break up spicewood branches, and put in pot with meat. Boil until the meat is tender. Remove; then salt and pepper; then roll in flour; put in 1/2 cup shortening, preferably bacon grease. Then put in oven and bake until it is brown.
Mrs. Ennis Ownby”
from Mountain Makin’s in the Smokies, published by the Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association, 1957.
*(“boil” is old-talk for simmer.)
For a minute I tried to imagine your particular mother-in-law teaching you to cook groundhog. Bwahahahaha.
Me, too! I thought “wow, both of your mothers have cooked groundhog…”
I had the same thought and cackle/giggle, the leader that comes to me email contained almost everything but the byline.
We’d like some more from you, sir.
Davy Davy Dumpling
Boil him in a pot
Sugar him and butter him
And eat him while he’s hot.
I’ll see what I can do.