• 738 swan food

    From MICHAEL LOO@1:123/140 to JIM WELLER on Friday, December 28, 2018 19:52:44
    According to the Royal Society for the Protection
    of Birds (yes, it is a thing):
    They take the molluscs which cling to the vegetation
    and also eat small fish, frogs and worms.
    I am relying on nature books here and not first hand observation
    but I do believe the fish and frogs etc are a minor and incidental
    component of an almost vegetarian diet.

    I'd believe that and would consider a small
    percentage of fish not to be a big deal
    (freshwater fish tend to be kind of mild
    anyway).

    I'm pretty sure they taste pretty good. After all they were hunted
    almost to extinction here in the past and in England they're
    reserved for royal feasts.

    There's no unanimity on the terms of the royal
    claim to swans, but the point is taken.

    One hunter describes Tundra swans which are legal to hunt as looking
    like long neck geese and tasting like duck ... "dark, tender, mild
    and clean-tasting.

    I'm in.

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    Title: Donald Keen's Wild Goose
    Categories: Goose, Game
    Yield: 4 Servings

    1 Goose

    1st, shoot him
    2nd. pick and clean him
    3rd. wash him in olive oil
    4th. Stuff him with 1 apple and 1 potato Steam him in roaster with 1
    cup water for 1 hour. Then remove apple and potato and stuff him with
    dressing (your favorite turkey dressing). Add 1-1/2 cups water to
    roaster, cover breasts of goose with a grease soaked tea towel and
    cook covered for 2 hours in 275 degree oven. Uncover and cook 1 more
    hour in 250 degree oven. Goose can be cooked by recipe for wild duck.
    Simply increase cooking time about 1 hour.

    From: "Drkeen" <drkeen@family-Net.Org>

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