The makins - squirrel and dumplings

[Ranger99]

also , if you didn't know, b.powder or
b.soda starts acting as soon as it gets
wet, so don't dally around too long before
you put bread in the oven, dumplings in, etc.

[jackruff]

Just find a recipe for biscuits.  Usually there's one on the flour bag.  Roll out thin and cut into strips.  Cut again into squares.  Can't go wrong!

[ratgunner]

Bisquick makes for good dumplings. The recipe is on the box I think.

[jackruff]

Bisquick is just self-rising flour with the shortening already in it.  It may work ok for dumplings - I don't know  - but it's not as good for biscuits as when you mix the ingredients yourself.

[Ranger99]

the trouble with bisquick is that it may
have set on the shelf a while in the
warehouse and in the store, and if
not fresh the leavening in it doesn't
act as good as it should. i just buy
regular flour and a tight sealing can
of baking powder.


plus anything using baking powder or
soda has to be dealt with quick because
unlike yeast it will only act once.

[jpshaw]

But today I cooked a couple of rabbits.

You have rabbits.  If you want to find a rabbit in Louisiana these days you gotta dig around in Coyote Poop.  It's terrible.

[AtlLaw]

the trouble with bisquick is that it may have set on the shelf a while in the warehouse and in the store, and if not fresh the leavening in it doesn't act as good as it should.

I wonder if that's the reason my attempt at bisquits with bisquick a few months back failed so badly!      And I mean really badly!   
 
Oh well, it's time to shoot a mess of corn fed tree rats again!   
 
And I sure would like some fried rabbit... but they been scarce 'round here also.   

[jpshaw]

I told those other boys to only make head shots but it turned out to be beyond their capabilities.

My Daddy and my old Aunt would of said no to that.  Shoot the ribs.  Brains and cheek meat were their favorites.  Of course if I wasn't cleaning those squirrels for them as soon as I had that skin over the front shoulders that head was coming off with the skin.

[mechanic]

Richard,
 
I happened up on two big fat doe rabbits last Sat. whilst out woods walking with the grandson.  First ones I've seen in a while......They will be in the pot as soon as I get the time.
 
Ben

[AtlLaw]

My Daddy and my old Aunt would of said no to that.  Shoot the ribs.  Brains and cheek meat were their favorites.

I've heard, here on GBO that is, that the brains are the best part of the squirrel...    Sure seems like they would be more work then they're worth! 
 

I happened up on two big fat doe rabbits last Sat. whilst out woods walking with the grandson.

YUM!     I'd pressure cook 'em for a few minutes, season them up and roll 'em in flour and drop 'em in hot peanut oil!  Then, after I'd had my fried rabbit fix, I'd get fancy with the recipes.   

[jpshaw]

I'm still waiting on AtlLaw's dumpling recipe.  The one from scratch not the tortilla one.  I use two cups all purpose flour, 6 Tbs unsalted butter, one Tbs of Featherweight baking powder and 2/3 cup of milk all squished together.  Course you gotta drop it by the spoonful into boiling chicken broth for chicken and dumplings or whatever you covered your squirrels in for squirrel and dumplings.

[AtlLaw]

Ya gotta forgive me JP.  I'm old and senile.     I tend to forget things as soon as the conversation is over...    Like from here to the kitchen where my recipe box is.  If I left right now, by the time I got to the kitchen Ida forgotton why I was there!   
 
But what you do sounds like mine!     'cept I keep the dough pretty dry, roll it out and cut it into strips.  The extra flour on the dumplings from the cutting board thickens the chicken broth.
 
DARN!!!  Now you done did it!     I got this overpowering desire to cook C&D for dinner!   
 
But I'll probably forget what I wanted by the time I get to the store...   

[BruceP]

Well guys, I have no clue how to make dumplins but for one thing you are making me hungry and I just finished dinner. 
Second you have brought a smile to me face as my "Granny" use to make the best squirrel (or chicken) and dumplins. She passed away last August, just 3 months short of 94 years old.
Thanks for the memories.

Bruce

[pastorp]

Yes fellows thanks for the memories,  my mother in laws favorite meal was squirrel heads & rice. She cooked pretty good dumplings too but usually with chicken. Then you needed pig tails in the greens. Fresh biscuits every morning. And fresh eggs right out of the hen house.

She & her 5 sisters were all raised in South Georgia and every one of them could really cook. Only one of the aunts left & she's in a nursing home now, but before my MIL died she taught me how to bake her biscuits since my wife couldn't learn.  but like Richard I forgot where I put the recipe.

 

[Ranger99]

regular flour- tablespoon b powder for
each cup flour- one egg per- about a tbls
of butter per- pinch of salt- 2 pinches sugar-
blend dry ingredients first- add sweetmilk
to texture- cleaned out and washed vye-ainny
sausage can to cut out biscuits- or big peach can
samey same for cathead bisquits- roll or press
dough out about 2 average fingers thick or
one wrassler finger thick- cut out biscuits
and bake on sheet tray greased with bacon
grease- eat with ribbon cane syrup and butter

[jpshaw]

This was all purpose flour, would self rising be better?

Nah.  Self rising is nothing more then flour with the baking powder already added plus extra salt.  I use 1 Tbs of baking powder for each 2 cups of all purpose flour.  My recipe calls for 2 cups all purpose flour, 1 Tbs baking powder, 6 Tbs unsalted butter all squished together.  Then add enough milk (about 2/3 cup) to get the consistance you need.  You can roll this out and cut or simply shape it into a large spoon before dropping it into the chicken broth.  Let simmer 10 minutes uncovered and another 10 minutes covered.  BTW if your chicken is already in there (about 6 cups of broth) this doesn't fit a standard 3 qt saucepan too good.  Use a 4 Qt stock pot.

[jackruff]

This was all purpose flour, would self rising be better?

Nah.  Self rising is nothing more then flour with the baking powder already added plus extra salt.  I use 1 Tbs of baking powder for each 2 cups of all purpose flour.  My recipe calls for 2 cups all purpose flour, 1 Tbs baking powder, 6 Tbs unsalted butter all squished together.  Then add enough milk (about 2/3 cup) to get the consistance you need.  You can roll this out and cut or simply shape it into a large spoon before dropping it into the chicken broth.  Let simmer 10 minutes uncovered and another 10 minutes covered.  BTW if your chicken is already in there (about 6 cups of broth) this doesn't fit a standard 3 qt saucepan too good.  Use a 4 Qt stock pot.

That's my recipe, too.  It's just biscuit dough, basically.  Usually I use Crisco shortening instead of butter.

[hillbill]

BUGFLIPPER. My Uncle Ray used to offer his rifle and shells to use on squirrels, no head shots allowed, he wanted that head. A cousin worked with a bunch of city folk. He took some cold fried squirrel to work one day and several asked what it was. He told em, OHHHHH, AWFUL, EWWWWWWW, how could you eat that poor critter?? Next weekend he got several more and took the cooked heads to work. He cleared our the lunch room chewing on those heads. HEH, city folk never cease to amaze me. POWDERMAN. 

he he they never cease to amaze me also.never did understand a bunch of folks eatin meat they got no idea where it came from.how many people would eat meat if they had to raise it and kill it and butcher it?or hunt it down in the wild and butcher it?prob very few.

[hillbill]

My Daddy and my old Aunt would of said no to that.  Shoot the ribs.  Brains and cheek meat were their favorites.

I've heard, here on GBO that is, that the brains are the best part of the squirrel...    Sure seems like they would be more work then they're worth! 
 

I happened up on two big fat doe rabbits last Sat. whilst out woods walking with the grandson.

YUM!     I'd pressure cook 'em for a few minutes, season them up and roll 'em in flour and drop 'em in hot peanut oil!  Then, after I'd had my fried rabbit fix, I'd get fancy with the recipes.   

mmm after yu had sum of my fried tame yung rabbit, you would not have to git fancy recipes. just more fried rabbit and more good beer!