Baked Opossum

Ingredients

• After the opossum is dressed and salted
• put it in a baking pan with a little water
• a good deal of red pepper
• several slices of fat pork, or some lard

Method

1. 1

   Cover and cook until tender.

2. 2

   Then put inside the stove and brown.

3. 3

   Sweet potatoes may be put around the sides of the pan and browned at the same time.

4. 4

   A good sauce is made by cooking Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, butter, pepper, and salt.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED OPOSSUM. After the opossum is dressed and salted, put it in a baking pan with a little water, a good deal of red pepper, and several slices of fat pork, or some lard

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