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  • From: william Eggers <wce1482 AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Playing Possum
  • Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 15:10:46 -0800 (PST)

Not good.  When I was young, we had a maiden aunt who lived with us and she
would cook anything we killed.  She did refuse to cook skunk.  But she cooked
everything else, turtle, snake, frogs, coon, rabbit, squirrel.  Even
sparrows.  Anyway the opossum was not so good.

--- On Mon, 12/8/08, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:

From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Playing Possum
To: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 11:18 PM

I can tell you were that possum has been. Anywhere that stinks. Inside a
dead
cow or a dead pig or a big pile of garbage. I have to be careful how I put
this, but when I was a lad; possum was considered very desirable in the black
part of our community. I would trade to black men I knew, possums and coons
for
rabbits. Where I was a lad, the black men prided themselves on their beagles
and their prowess at rabbit hunting. I went on a big rabbit hunt, a state
away,
we took some black men and a bunch of their beagles. Beagles chase rabbits in
circles, closer, and closer, until, they are in gun sight. I have been in a
group of a half dozen men standing back to back so rabbits in all direction,
damn rabbit got chased right in amongst us, between our legs . Hah.

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--- On Mon, 12/8/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Playing Possum
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 10:10 PM
> I've heard this before..
> Here's my thing...why would I want to possibly waste a
> weeks worth of
> sweet potatoes(or corn or whatever other good food to clean
> out/fatten
> up) for enough meat for maybe two meals from a possum,
> assuming that I
> liked it...
> It is supposed to taste like rabbit, but I will pass on
> trying it...
> I think I would eat my dog before I would eat a possum...at
> least I know
> where my dog has been <vbg> ;)
>
> Bev
>
>
> bob ford wrote:
> > You can catch a possum every night with a live trap.
> Then you feed them sweett potaoes (only) for several weeks.
> It is their nature to be filthy animals. The sweet potaoe
> regimen cleanes their flesh and innards and such. Then, you
> have a meal. Yum. (tell me how it tastes. I've caught
> many, but always traded possums and coons for rabbits, never
> actually tasted possum, myself)
> >
>
> -- “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to
> anger. Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda



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Pressure cookers don't have the right weights or gauge to do pressure
canning at higher elevations.

The local Farm Bureau would be incorrect. One can both BWB (boiling water
bath) and steam can (a steam canner is not a pressure canner) at all
elevations. Just like the pressure canner, your times change.

Here's the real answer to all your canning questions, one should get the
latest Ball Blue Book (referred to by canners as the BBB) and refer to
National Center For Food Preservation http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/ for general
information on all types of food preservation and
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/uga/using_press_canners.html for
specifics on canners.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>


Double check that one.

For pressure cooking, for every 1000 feet above 2000feet sea level, you have
to increase the cooking time by 5%.

I've heard at the local Farm Bureau that the hot water bath method (as
opposed to pressure canning) for high acid foods can't be don't at higher
elevations, but have not verified that independently.





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