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Offline mrd250

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Looking for porcupine recipes!
« on: November 02, 2003, 11:27:51 AM »
Hello all!  I am new to this forum and would like to thank everyone in advance for any suggestions you might have.

My husband and I just bought property in the heart of Michigan's Manistee National Forest.  We spend our weekends there camping in a travel trailer with our 2 English Setters.

This past weekend our 4 year old Setter treed quite a large porcupine.  Since we have found pulling quills out of the dogs mouth with pliers to be a less than satisfying experience, we put the dogs up and my husband shot the porcupine (several times, I might add).  We ended up with a dead porcupine weighing in at around 40 pounds or so.  We disposed of the critter so the dogs would not find it at a later date.

Being avid hunters and outdoors persons, we felt it an injustice to dispose of perfectly good meat.  However, we had no clue as to how to clean or prepare porcupine.  I did a search online for porcupine recipes and ended up with about 100 recipes for porcupine meatballs (unfortunately no porcupine meat is required).

If anyone has any recipes for me I would really appreciate it.  Judging by all the hollowed tree trunks on our property, I think porkie hunting is going to become a way of life!

Thanks,

Joan :D
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Offline jdt48653

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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2003, 04:45:07 PM »
these folks are in michigan like you and i,they can scare up some ways to fix a porkie!  as mich is porkie country!

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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2004, 10:15:29 AM »
Some "Mountain Man" type friends told me how they did theirs:

Parboil for about 2 hours then prepare as you would a Rock Chuck (Marmot in the East, I guess). :)
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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2004, 06:55:12 AM »
A number of years ago while working on the reservation at Warm Springs Or a friend shot a porky just to dispose of it. I personally could not walk off a leave the critter just lying there to waste. I brought it home and skinned it.
 I cooked it as one would a turkey. That is roasted and covered with a bit of water in the bottom of the pan to promote steaming initially. Then made a gravy in exactly the same way as one does when preparing turkey. I must admit that it was far better table fare than I would have ever immagined. Best of luck. POW
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