Posted this for fphil on the food board a while back....
wonder if he ever tried it? hmmmmmmm
Possum or Bandicoot Soup
1 ea Small possum or bandicoot*
Water
1 tsp Salt
1 ea Tin corn*
Any other veggies desired
Celery leaves
Parsley
Flour or gravox* to thicken
Fried bread,1 slice per serv
Skin and clean possum or bandicoot, then quarter the animal. (Video tape this please. I have no idea how to do it. Also "first you have to catch a possum or bandicoot", but then that's another story.)
Place it in a large pot or camp oven along with water and salt. Cover and simmer gently for 3 or 4 hours. (Tough little devils apparently.)
Add vegetables and simmer for another 1 1/2 hours (Still tough. Even the veggies are resisting being associated with this.) Strain soup through a large holed colander when meat has left bone and remove bones, especially small ones. Return soup to the pot and add parsley and celery leaves. Thicken with a little flour or gravox. Cut fried bread into 1 inch squares and serve soup over toast,boiling hot.
*For those of you that haven't met a bandicoot, it is something
between a possum and a raccoon, sort of, I think, maybe.
*Tin of corn? Well a can I guess, 16 oz.
*Now, when you boil this meat for 5 1/2 hours, strain it and throw it away, it does make me wonder why you started in the first place.
*Gravox is a meat concentrate seasoning I think. The dish must be need some flavor.
*Fry the bread any way you want to.
*All things considered, a brick or stone would be a reasonable alternative if you don't happen to have a possum or bandicoot available.
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you even tried."
AI
