How to cook Rats and Mice

With the abundant Rat and Mouse blogs of late I thought I would share some of my favorite recipes for cooking them.
Bandwagon Mouse

Ingredients:-
6 freshly killed mice. (Substitute rats if you have them)
1 large onion, finely chopped.
1 box of tic tac’s. (Scampi fries or mint flavor)
Selection of cookies
250g Pirate Arrrs.
1 table spoon of lols.
Garlic, ginger & turmeric to taste.

Wash the mice in boiling water to remove the fleas and other things in their fur, remove the innards and leave to soak in fresh or cubed chicken stock.

Heat up a cast iron pan and add soulmate oil or olive oil if soulmate is not available, add the onions, ginger and garlic, a spoon of turmeric and Saute until the onions are soft, add the mice to the pan and cook on both sides until the fur is blizzard's, add the lols, the tic tacs and simmer for 2 valentines.

Serve on a bed of Pirate Arrrs and garnish with the cookies.

Bon appetit!
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Map!
Not so early in the morning ! blues
Brown rats and roof rats were eaten openly on a large scale in Paris when the city was under siege during the Franco-Prussian War. Observers likened their taste to both partridges and pork. And, according to the Larousse Gastronomique, rats are still eaten in some parts of France. In fact, this recipe appears in that famous tome.

In West Africa, however, rats are till date a major item of diet. the giant rat (Cricetomys), the cane rat (Thryonomys), the common house mouse, and other species of rats and mice are all eaten.

According to a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization report, they now comprise of over 50 percent of the locally produced meat eaten in some parts of Ghana. Between December 1968 and June 1970, 258,206 pounds of cane-rat meat alone were sold in one market in Accra! barf
Molly, I apologise, however the cultural differences here are quite large, where you may enjoy tea and porridge on a frosty Irish morning, some would relish a nice meal like bandwagon mouse for breakfast.
Yummyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!! yay yay yay
Molly reunion

It's really not THAT bad, yanno. Rats actually taste quite like chicken wink grin
I was enjoying my tea until this blog blues



Mimi!!! reunion
Quite fancied rotisserie rat ala Shrek...


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Add any other rat you may feel like roasting over a bed of hot coal
.devil
Baigggggggggggggggggggg pointing

Looking at that pic makes me hungry now.....mumbling

Gonna rummage through my almost empty fridge to see if there's anything that hasn't expired to eat!! help
Ag nee sies! We had a pet rat, the cutest little girl ever....and you want to cook her!? blues
I'm thinking the mice done on rotisserie, their little feet be nice and crunchy grin
Ob, Thanks for your thoughtful contribution, as a native African I have enjoyed cane rat many times, best BBQ'd with sweet and sour sauce.
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Mimiiiiii... pointing

I just had chicken tikka and white beans.. but that image still makes me crave.. yummy!! grin
Dc, It is a little like chicken, KFC family packs contain at least 30% rat...share your recipe!

Incu, what happened to your ears?

Unla, Pets rats are really too small, unless they have been fattened up with sweetcorn they are not worth the effort.

Track, the feet are crunchy, however the claws need cutting off as they can cut the roof of your mouth.
Guinea pig being served is common in South America.
An old folk remedy from London was :


... is a remedy for bed-wetting—eating a snack of dead mice on toast.

So if there are any who can confirm how successful this is ?
Incu, that explains the ears, not sure why your skin has a green tinge though.

Track, Rodents are eaten everywhere, I dont see anything from with it.

Ob, We will need a Londoner to confirm the mouse on toast cure.
Map The voices in my head are telling me not to eat this stuff...plus I couldn't catch them in the first place, and then there's the image of poor old Ratatouille if I did entertain the above recipe....it's not for me I'm sorry you can't convince me....not even with tic tacs, cookies, boiled, pickled, roasted. I'm a rat lover....

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I was never offered guinea pig in south america uh oh

Nor rat in any other part of the world either uh oh


But I think I will avoid the world from now on, just in case professor
Ah Map, she was well worth the effort and wouldn't have looked very good on a skewer laugh
World population is 7.5 billion ...

while rat population has been estimated to be seven billion rats across the planet.



So it's almost 1 to 1

We better eat them before they rise up and eat us

JMHO
Excellent question Dear Map... I actually dyed my whole body green just to match my princess's favorite colour.. she only wears green.. could be an Irish clover thing.. roll eyes

Plus it also gives it me the "hulk" look... so who am I to complain.. grin
Spaghetti already included blues

http://youtu.be/BHgcdiZIIiE
This was a blog purely about cooking and eating mice and rats right? wink
Here you go Molly... doh


Now, that is a cute rat

Thanks Incu hug
Rough, to answer your question...No, no its notgrin
Harden up and read this. ..




You have no idea what your injesting
Thanks blue 'mammalian excreta' yum yum barf
Howzit Unlaoised! (yea that's my new thing that I've picked up from you) grin

I was just the messenger.. it was Molly's choice.. wink
Howzit Baig! laugh We'll have to speaking proper Safrican soon laugh
Yummo Map! laugh
This is a bit of a sticky one....it's all about following your recipe word for word....need to be moderate with the marinade on this one or you will have to throw it out and start all over again wink
Aesthetic aspects aside...
It has less to do with what critter you're eating,
than what the critter you're eating has been eating.

Grain-fed rat is probably better quality meat than a lot of the commercially raised meats sold in stores.

A good example -
Grain/alfalfa-fed deer from farming areas tastes great.
Deer from remote area that have been eating black oak acorns, bark & pine needles/cones...less so.

cowboy
Ob, Its an acquired taste, normally self service blogs are the best places to try the dish, at least you can choose which items to try without a stale sickly taste in your mouth.
Many people love wild duck.
Me? Not so much.
The duck may have been shot over a pristine lake, but you have no way of knowing where that bird was feeding the day before.

I'm much more comfortable with pheasant or grouse.
You have a good idea where they've lived their lives & on what they've been feeding.

Can't say I've ever eaten mouse or rat...except maybe at a fast food chicken stand. laugh
I have, however, eaten quite a bit of farm country squirrel.
Perhaps some of the very best meat...period.
And realistically, they're basically furry-tailed rats.

cowboy
This bit of down-home wisdom from 'The Feller'...

'Put me on a desert island with anything that flies, walks or crawls, & after three days...one of us is gonna eat!' uh oh

cowboy
Like "I am liking to be wearing a jean pant", Map? laugh
Unla, exactly, add a few more:

Did you got a smoke you can borrow me

Not now, now now

And of course add the word "man" to every sentence.
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