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We've eaten Rat in the past...
« on: October 19, 2016, 10:43:14 AM »
In my best Homer Simpson(r) voice:  Mmmmm Rats!

http://phys.org/news/2016-10-years-rodents-apparently-food-europe.html

For your gustatory pleasure and a new flavor treat, try Fried Rat.  It's what's for Dinner.

Recipes will be made available as soon as the translations are made available by the archaeological teams.

Until then, just use any recipe for Rabbit.
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Aside from a small problem of being a disease vector, Rats do breed quickly and are likely to do a resurgence in many urban areas if the garbage services fail.

They can also be domesticated and raised in cages just like rabbits.  Your college sociology class may come in handy after all...

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Re: We've eaten Rat in the past...
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2016, 01:19:49 PM »
In my best Homer Simpson(r) voice:  Mmmmm Rats!

http://phys.org/news/2016-10-years-rodents-apparently-food-europe.html

For your gustatory pleasure and a new flavor treat, try Fried Rat.  It's what's for Dinner.



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Re: We've eaten Rat in the past...
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2016, 07:55:53 PM »
Country Rat are much safer to eat than their city cousins. They are a staple in Africa and South East Asia. Mostly a psychological problem rather that taste or so I am told.
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Re: We've eaten Rat in the past...
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2016, 05:47:26 AM »
Just remember Halloween is close and you need something to give to the children which will not cause cavities :o

The following are recipes for Rat...

With respect to quantities, more is better, since rats are not (usually) large animals.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5931901/recipes-for-the-post-apocalypse-how-and-why-to-eat-rat-meat

Rat Jerky

Created by Yuri Hart and Robert Pugh
15 Rats
 1.Take all rats and with a smoking gun, smoker or cold smoker, smoke the rats with hickory until they have a smokey flavor.
 2. Season the rats with salt and pepper. Line the rats on a grate with a sheet tray underneath.
 3. Set the oven to 280 degrees, place the rats in the oven and cook for three hours, or until rats are crispy on the outside.
 4. Let the rats cool, and then pull the meat off of the bodies into bite size pieces.
 5. Serve meat at room temperature.
http://www.free-gourmet-recipes.com/rats-recipes.html

Rats Recipe:

Ingredients

Fresh rats
Fresh herbs
Cooking oil
Chilli peppers
Butter
Peanuts

Blow the rat skin with a blowtorch.
Leave rats to cool down.
When they are cool enough, clean the rest of the skin with a steel wool.
Eviscerate the rats and split them.
Put all the good rat parts in a jar, with the fresh peppers, herbs and oil.
Leave this for half an hour in the fridge.
Deep-fry until brown in a mixture of butter and peanut oil.
Serve hot with some crunchy peanuts.

More Rats Recipes

Bordeaux Grilled Rats

Skin and eviscerate rats that live in wine cellars. Brush with a thick sauce that combines olive oil and crushed shallots. Grill over a fire of broken wine barrels.

Stewed Cane Rat

Skin and eviscerate the rat and split it lengthwise. Fry until brown in a mixture of butter and peanut oil. Cover with water, add tomatoes or tomato puree, hot red peppers, and salt. Simmer the rat until tender and serve with rice.

Creamed Mice

Skin, gut and wash some fat mice without removing their heads. Cover them in a pot with ethyl alcohol and marinate 2 hours. Dice a piece of salt pork or sowbelly and cook it slowly to extract the fat. Drain the mice, dredge them thoroughly in a mixture of flour, pepper, and salt, and fry slowly in the rendered fat for about 5 minutes. Add a cup of alcohol and 6 to 8 cloves, cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Prepare a cream sauce, transfer the sauteed mice to it, and warm them in it for about 10 minutes before serving.

From Canadian naturalist and conservationist Farley Mowatt:
Drain the mice, dredge them thoroughly in a mixture of flour, pepper and salt, and fry slowly in the rendered fat for about five minutes. Add a cup of alcohol and 6-8 cloves, cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Prepare a cream sauce, transfer the mice to it and warm them in it for about 10 minutes before serving.\

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Seriously now, you did copy these into your Prepper documents folder, right?
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Re: We've eaten Rat in the past...
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2016, 09:11:32 AM »
Two things should be mentioned:
•   Rat meat must be very well cooked. Just searing over a flame is not wise. Long slow penetrating heat to kill deep in the meat parasites is best, IMO. 
•   It is best to do as they do in Africa to minimize your contact with the rat:
o   Grasp the rat by its naked tail and, before it is gutted or cleaned, and suspend it (by the tail) over a low smoky fire for an hour or so.
o   This causes the fleas to abandon the carcass and drop into the fire. This is especially important for those who live where the fleas carry bubonic plague. 
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