Eating muskrat.

Yes you do or no you dont?

Not bad at all.During the depression restaurants sold muskrat under the name marsh rabbit.

its a lot better than it looks,no gamey taste,parboil 45 minutes,cut off bone and put it in any recipe. Great in stroganoff.

Yes, yes I do.

Yes, muskrat is good to eat. It is beef like in flavor and texture and not dissimilar to beaver.

Keith

I had it once. Absolutely disgusting. Tasted like the black goop on the bottom of a Marsh. Your mileage may vary, some people love it. Give it a try, it's free food.

Was talkin with my great Aunt Avis on New Year’s Day, she’s 95. I’d been hunting earlier, so she got talkin bout living in the sticks, said they ate everything. Adams Mills Ohio on the Muskingham River. Around 1945. She ate something right.

Not that hungry. Yet.

no

Now I got Dwight Yoakum stuck in my head

It's the reason I trap. That and beaver.

Get the glands out.

And Randy Newberg...

I agree. Never cooked it for myself but when I had it roasted it tasted like a beef roast. Still don't cook it for myself though.

Yes I have and it was good but prefer it for bait.

I did when I was a home trapping after school but that was a long time ago.

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Trimmed off anything not meat , parboiled, roasted ,pulled apart and added a little bbq .Would eat again but served it up for a wild game dinner. Beaver much easier.

In 1977, When I was 18 year's old and attending college,

there wasn't a lot of money for groceries so muskrat was

on the menu along with venison.

Pan fried muskrat rolled in flour/bread crumbs butter, salt and pepper

was a popular feast on many occasions.

With all the farm pollution and chemicals flowing

into my marshes now, I wouldn't eat it any more.

w

I’ve had beaver and thought it was pretty good but never muskrat. I would like to try some sometime. They don’t exist in my area Pennsylvania so it might be a while until I get a chance.

Yep, 3 or 4X a year... not much on coon though.

Yes. Morgan’s got the recipe, darn good!

John

I have eaten muskrat and beaver when I was in my teens, and enjoyed muskrat much more than beaver.
Don't have rats here, but plenty of beaver.
No beav, for me. If I could catch muskrat, I would definatly eat them.

Haven't for a good while but when I did, it tasted like a typical non-grain eating puddle duck--- all that stuff has a hint of liver taste to it in my opinion. I think a guy could swamp out duck meat in most duck recipes and most people wouldn't miss a beat.

I have eaten a lot of them... the secret is to cut the glands out of usually under front legs and another under the flap of skin in the hind legs. The second thing is when you par boil them, make sure they are well covered with water, when they become tender slowly pour the water off of them so any dissolved fat and bad tasting stuff is poured off of the meat. Then I take them out of the pot and rinse them in tepid water, roll them in flour with salt and pepper and slow fry them till brown. Remove the meat from the skillet and make a gravy from the flour and juice (water) left in the skillet. They remind me a lot of squirrel and I grew up eating squirrel.

Garry-

Not to hijack the thread but has anyone made sausage out of muskrat?

Chris

Have smoked many pairs of m'rat hams and they are delicious, also BBQ'd. Only thing I don't really like about it is the texture is a little soft and grainy(towards liver texture IMO). It is a very rich flavor and best limited

Fried muskrat and cramper is very good.

muskrat is very good as is beaver also.

I ate a muskrat once, wasn't too impressed, as was said above kind of reminded me of liver/duck. Beaver is much better imo.
Imo, if you need to bread and fry any kind of red meat or pork to make it palatable it's not worth eating.

We had it a lot when growing up. Marinate the hind quarters in Italian salad dressing over night in the fridge. Put it on the bbq grill the next day. deeee licious.

yes both beaver and muskrats , like them both ,

It is against the law here to serve muskrats with gravy. It should be everywhere.

X2

Tastes like CHICKEN
Along with everthing else.

I’ve tasted muskrat twice over a 60 year span. Tastes so bad, it will take me another 60 years to work up the courage to try it a third time. Lol. I’m sure it wasn’t prepared right.

Muskrat and Beaver are a staple in my fur shed. Cast Iron skillet on the wood stove with butter, salt and pepper saves me from going in the house for dinner on long days when fur gets backed up. I have had many friends stop in when they see the shed light on and try both with no one ever turning down a second helping. I cook muskrat hind legs right on the bone, pick them up and eat like a chicken wing when they are done.

albrahal. 2X

I'd stop by your fur shed if the light was on!

Love eating them . Par boil for a hour then fry in bacon drippings just enough to brown them with salt pepper to taste and some onions

Prep is the key remove all glands then soak in saltwater . I like 48 hours before cooking just change water out frequently

I'll take Venison over mrat if there was a choice

And why is that ???? You have chicken and gravy, squirrel and gravy, rabbit and gravy, quail, turkey pheasant and every other kind of critter. Is that in the state of Maryland or just in your household?

Oh yes, thanks Paul, I forgot, we soaked it in salt water with some vinegar over night too.

Garry-

Before I retired cooked some up and took to work. Told everyone it was marsh rabbit. They loved it until I told them what it was and then I recieved several new names that not allowed on here. LOL

I would have to be In the starvation mode before I would eat them.

My father was a fan of Muskrat, as result, I have eaten many of them. Even made jerky from it. It has been decades since I last cooked one.