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???
