Man, I really wish I'd had this up and active before the first of April... so that I could have done a post about my success with Hasenpfeffer, page 525.The 75th anniversary edition has minimized the wild game pages...at least my memory suspects this...because I have definite memories of sitting for long stretches of time at the kitchen table during parent-parties, looking at sketches of squirrel and wildthings, with ego-id delight.
After a brief nod to the array of North American small game still plentiful: "rabbit, squirrel, opossum, porcupine, raccoon, woodchuck, beaver, armadillo, muskrat," the book laments the vanishing of rural life, and the fading of recipe need in this department. Small Game recipes in this edition are limited to rabbit. ...I bet because that's the only small game that's still acceptable at a fancy party (and even then, it's the party of a mean host)...and really just to keep ithe book's name as the secret-most-creepiest-cookbook out there. The Joy of Cooking does take a moment to reassure that most small game can be cooked according to methods for chicken.
[really?...because these quills are posing a difficulty...]
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