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I used to bag a woodcock now and then chasing singles from a bobwhite covey rise down into the swamp. I just gutted & skinned'em and fried them with the quail. Aweful, they even contaminated the quail they were cooked with. I think they should be given protected status like Eagles and Buzzards to prevent the horror of eating them...Geo
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I eat them guts and all.
I've posted the process here before.
Look at the Scott Rhea project on Youtube for his down scale efforts.
I love them both roasted sitting on a toast raft surrounded by a sauce made from the entire trail (in the style of Escoffier), as well as surrounded by a moat of fresh Cumberland sauce.
Additionally, the skull is pricked open like a potato crisp with the lower beak, and the brain scooped out on its tip, like a delicate, creamy, jelly bean.
c'est Manufique! (Sp)
I have read this before on this and other boards where hunters post. I have to say, and this is purely my opinion, that this still sounds as disgusting here today as it did the first time I ever saw it written!! I have never eaten woodcock/snipe but would certainly like to try it. But, I will leave the insides of the bird to the trash just like the insides of all the other gamebirds I eat. I can only wonder that if one would eat snipe guts, would you also eat chicken the same way???
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Woodcock etc.. I really appreciate this thread as it deviates from the never ending ammendment 2 disputes/insults... So here is some info .. In the wine pubs of western Vienna you cold hear a cynical song which reads... " Wer a goed hot isst an Schnepfen-dreck und wer kans hot lasst den Schnepfen weg"... (Schnepfen-dreck means "gut"and NOT junk....) I will not translate it further, but my late mother who learned to cook in a grand-bourgois household told me that the woodcock-gut has been roasted.... To conclude on game meat in Central Europe: - roe dear young in november/december is unbeatable as everything on it is steak-like with beginning game taste - young WILD (non-reared) Hungarian partridge can not be bettered by any pheasant or other bird Guten Appetit and cheers FN
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I am not in prime woodcock territory, but over the years I did kill a fair amount of them. I am NOT a cook, my Wife is a fantastic one, so I left their cooking entirely up to her. I did not really even ask her how she cooked them, but they were always good & I ate & enjoyed them. They "Did Not" taste like Liver, if they had I would not have eaten them.
I have never eaten liver, regardless of how it was cooked which tasted like anything other than Liver, & I don't like the taste of liver.
Miller/TN I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra
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Medium rare sliced in thin strips.
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Oui, mon ami. He most likely likes ortolans as well. Le Reynard!!
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Be strong, be of good courage. God bless America, long live the Republic.
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After watching that all I can say is, Boy, was I wrong! Definitely a dish you would pair with a Sprite. _________________________ What time does Chick-fil-a open?
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John, Thanks for sharing, but I'll stick to marinated breasts and legs! Still, I'll never know unless I try. Karl
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