Beaver ham

[ang-kay]

Beaver ham

Category: Culinary recipes

Ingredients
beaver meat	700g
mustard seed	1h
ground nutmeg	0.5hl
ground ginger	0.5hl
ground black pepper	0.5hl
fresh garlic (finely grated)	1 clove
juniper berries (crush in a mortar)	3 pcs
ground sumac	0.5hl
dried rosemary	pinch
nitrite salt	according to the formula
water	according to the formula
sugar	according to the formula

Cooking method

• Usually, it is recommended to soak the beaver meat in water with the addition of apple cider vinegar for a couple of days before cooking, changing the water. But I didn’t do it, as I decided to cook it using the wet salting method. Thank you ang-kay for this huge !!!!!
• The proportions of nitrite salt, water and sugar are taken strictly according to her recipe Wet salted pork sausage.
• Formula for calculating salt and water
• Water
• Water, l = meat weight, kg * 0.4
• Salt
• Salt, g = water, l * 85
• Add sugar
• Sugar, g = water, l * 10
• Based on 10g per 1 liter of water
• Cut the meat into arbitrary pieces, add the brine (proportions according to the formula) and put in the refrigerator for 5-7 days. I had 7. Periodically turn over.
• Then we take out the meat, rinse and cut into pieces for ham. Then put it in the freezer for 30 minutes. We take out, add spices and knead until sticky and the appearance of threads. We fill the ham and leave at room temperature for 2 hours.
• I cooked in a slow cooker.
• 1 hour - at a temperature of 45 degrees
• 1 hour - 65 degrees
• 2 hours - at a temperature of 80 degrees.
• Cool with ice water. Place in refrigerator for at least 12 hours.

Note

Composition and healing properties of meat

Beavers are strict vegetarians and feed exclusively on bark and young shoots of trees, preferring those that grow in river floodplains: birch, willow, poplar. They are also partial to juicy grass, irises, water lilies, reeds, etc. etc. Therefore, animal meat is considered an ecologically pure product, and the study of the biochemical composition showed that it contains a record amount of protein, B vitamins and unsaturated fatty acids, which have a beneficial effect on the human body. The product is recommended for strengthening the immune system, as well as for people with chronic diseases of the joints, eyes and skin (eczema, neurodermatitis). Beaver meat is dark red in color. The blood cells of the blood give this color to the meat. The beaver has a lot of them, they keep oxygen in the blood, helping the beaver, they are under water for a long time.

Iehhh ... I can't help it ... I'm sorry for the beavers ...

Beaver meat has been eaten for a very long time. It is allowed to eat it during fasting, since the beaver is a waterfowl and was equated with fish. It is dietary and low-fat.

Vegan Beavers (sorry, it's a flood)

Beavers. Well, in no way mammals, even if they live in water, even with a stretch, cannot be considered a fish. When they were allowed to eat during fasting, the level of knowledge of those times was also at the appropriate level. With an overabundance of colonies, beavers can lead with their dams to significant economic losses, and here, yes. it is necessary to regulate their activities so that there is no flooding of human habitation and agricultural land. Just don't think of beavers as fish.

And the beaver sausage is still delicious.

Poor beaver

What a pity for the beavers

And how! And also cows, hazel grouses and piglets. And the apple tree kids too.

It is allowed to eat it during fasting, since the beaver is a waterfowl and was equated with fish.

In the next post, I will try to leave a leg in a basin filled with water overnight. I equate, so to speak, to fish. How am I worse than medieval illiterate Catholics?

Indeed, at the request of François de Laval, Bishop of Quebec, the Catholic Church recognized the beaver as a fish in the 17th century.Theologians from the Sorbonne University, who were asked the question, supported the Bishop of Quebec and confirmed that the beaver is a fish, and therefore beaver meat can be eaten on Fridays and during Lent.

This is not an isolated case of the classification of mammals and birds as fish. In Venezuela, for example, in the middle of the 19th century, the capybara, a semi-aquatic rodent, was attributed to fish. At the end of the 16th century, a small puffin seabird was declared a fish in northern France. And last year in the bishopric of New Orleans, alligators were classified as fish, which also made it possible to eat these reptiles on Fridays and during Lent.

An interesting recipe! Thanks for the experience!
Maybe it will come in handy - you never know what my prey hunters will bring.

P. S.
Girls, let's not upset the author with our exclamations about "poor" beavers!

Vegans or other addicts do not come to you on topics with meat dishes and do not shed tears over chickens, turkeys, pigs, etc. Yes, beavers are hunted quite often! Since if there are many of them, they cause great harm to the forest and its inhabitants, making dams, blocking rivers, damming up places where other animals used to live. I have relatives in the fishing industry, I know what I am saying. Beavers are eaten quite often. As for me, moose, reindeer, roe deer are much nicer animals, but they are also hunted, and nothing. I'm generally silent about rabbits! So no one in themes with rabbit spares rabbits ... Double standards, however, since all animals are alive, regardless of whether they grew up in the wild or on a farm!

Didn't know what beavers eat ...

[Song*]

Song*,

they eat dogs in Korea, kangaroos in Australia, cats in Switzerland. In different countries, they eat whales, bears, snakes, gophers, crocodiles, etc. And they also kill animals for fur. A beaver hat won't surprise you, probably? Why is the ham surprising?

[Tricia]

Tricia, beaver ham is surprising, if only because beavers are somehow not sold in supermarkets)) the recipe is rather impracticable and this is strange ...

Those who do not like the recipe do not have to go into it !!!
There is a special topic Fu, I didn't like it ((

I've never had to eat a beaver either, but I'm not going to snort and puff at the recipe.
I didn’t eat wild boar or elk, but I won’t go into the recipes for cooking dishes from this game and I won’t fudge, and even less pronounce it to the authors of the recipes!

[kavmins]

Oops !!!!! I didn't think my recipe would cause such a wave of discussions.
Yes, sorry for the beavers. And I, for example, feel sorry for the unborn fry when I eat caviar. I may be tough now, but it's true. And I feel sorry for the chickens when I buy a kilo of chicken hearts in the store. But I don't write about this in recipes with these ingredients.

10 years ago I would have spat in the eye that I would have told me that I would eat beavers, as well as raw fish and meat in the form of sliced ​​meat, as well as maral, wild ducks, hares, wild boars, elk ... .. But the husband is a hunter and, as they say, you can't get away from this. Yes, fukala, yes, she cursed, did not know what to do with it ... and in general it was fucking ...

But now I eat game with pleasure. And my recipe, first of all, for those who have hunters in the family. Because nowhere could I find recipes from game even 5 years ago. And I will be glad if my experience is useful to someone. I also did not immediately succeed in making friends with this meat. Much was spoiled, shouted that I would not cook a beaver in any form, and so on ... That's why I wanted to share my luck.

Thank you (the word is so beautiful!) To everyone who supported me))) Special thanks to the Chief for the detailed information.

The rest of the game recipes will probably only live in my kitchen now.

Added on Friday 27 May 2016 07:32 AM

kavmins, try to type Beaver Sausage in any search engine, and you will be surprised - you can buy it

[all]

beavers are somehow not sold in supermarkets

and not all people live where there is supermarkets

and

husband hunter

- not everyone has on the farm

[Valentine]

Valentine, SinichkaVplease do not be offended! !

The rest of the game recipes will probably only live in my kitchen now.

Your recipes are needed! At least me. Because you never know how life will turn out and what the hunter-relatives will bring.
I'm ready to support you with any game recipe! Surely there will be other wives, daughters, mothers of hunters, and hunters themselves. I will give your recipes to my hunter men, and they will pass them on to their families.
Please don't give up. There are already two of us, and this is already a whole company.

Please share other recipes!
P. S.

kavmins, for me the recipe is absolutely executable! And also for those from the expanses of the former Soviet Union, where there are hunters in their families.
You probably didn't go to the recipe with snails or galaturia and wrote about impracticability?
Meanwhile, grape snails and sea cucumbers in some areas of the Union are as incredible as beavers in supermarkets. Those who need these recipes and who have the original ingredients come to such topics.
Girls who are far from hunting and are in a culture shock, I again ask you to discuss the fate of beavers in another topic and not offend the author!

beaver ham is surprising, if only because beavers are somehow not sold in supermarkets)) the recipe is rather impracticable and this is strange ...

A recipe, any recipe, may seem strange to someone, but this does not mean that he has no right to live. My friends live in Canada and have a small ranch. So they have, these cute beavers, are pests of the forest and their number is subject to regulation by shooting. And the bread maker is read not only by Russia and the CIS countries. So think, do you need a recipe or not? (Even if beavers are not found in our supermarkets and there are no acquaintances of hunters).
TO THE AUTHOR of the recipe THANKS! It's always fun to learn something new!

[SinichkaV]

The rest of the game recipes will probably only live in my kitchen now.

SinichkaV, Valya, do not be offended. This is mostly out of surprise.
Of course, there are more people on the forum who buy meat in a store or grow meat, but even for us, game recipes can be useful. Suddenly, some elk or hare or a wild duck breaks off - you will suffer with them, spoil the meat. After all, culinary techniques are probably different for tough, dry game and for tender fatty meat of domestic animals. And not every housewife has dealt with fresh meat, and this is also important.
So write, we are waiting for new recipes!
While I was writing, this opinion was already voiced! But I'll leave my message too

Thank you all very much)) And I promise to think about other recipes. Honest-pioneer. This beaver's tail is still in the freezer.

And a little about the taste. If you do not tell a person what this ham is made of, then he will say in 98% of cases that it is beef. The wet ambassador just rules here.

And a little about the taste. If you do not tell a person what this ham is made of, then he will say in 98% of cases that it is beef. The wet ambassador just rules here.

Valentina, I agree with you 100%. The problem of perception is purely psychological. The meat is delicious.

[Valentine]

This beaver's tail is still in the freezer.

Valentine, I will really wait for the recipe!
The tail is entirely muscle ... I have a stupor with such parts of meat, because it is difficult to cope with the rigidity of meat, only to digest it. But you won't eat boiled food all the time! How do you manage to turn it into not only tasty, but also chewable?

The wet ambassador here just rules

A wet game ambassador is just a lifesaver, I confirm!
And I also add homemade gingerbread spices. Even the most smelly alder elk turns out like spicy beef.
And my mother bakes straight with gingerbreads, cut into pieces and prunes. It turns out very interesting!
So, we need to get the moose out of the refrigerator.

[Anastasia]

Anastasia, and the tail of a beaver is not meat at all: girl_blum: When cooked it looks more like bacon. In smoked, probably too, but did not eat. But I have a completely different recipe, it happened by accident.But then I didn’t fotala, so I’ll wait for the music inspiration to visit nya "and there will be time.

... the elk is probably cold and boring in the fridge .... There is a recipe here on the forum Pickled Plums by Qween, here with them the game is very tasty.

And the moose recipe in the studio!

Pickled Plums by Qween

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!! Plum bomb super hit! I had 6 cans of such plums !!! : It was with them that we ate and baked! We even think in the same direction with you!

and the tail of a beaver is not meat at all

And I will not argue, such tails have not yet reached me ... only fillets.

the elk is probably cold and bored in the refrigerator

yes, a little bored

And the moose recipe in the studio!

Here we will eat up the prepared food, unfreeze it, take a photo of the process and post it!

I read it with curiosity and I want to say that any recipe has the right to live and everyone will find their own performer!
Well, there are no beavers in the supermarket, so what? Somehow I was looking for recipes from elk meat, I was killed, and not so long ago they tried to treat me to bear meat, I refused simply because I have no idea what to do with it ..
So let the forum's piggy bank be replenished !!!

And in our region of Karelia, the beavers GOT IT !! Sometime in the 70-80s, a Canadian beaver was brought to Karelia in order to restore the population of an endangered species, but to areas much to the south of mine. Since that time, the beaver has not only restored its population, but also expanded its habitat, wandered far to the North (to us, including further towards the White Sea) and became a disaster: previously passable roads became swampy, bridges were destroyed ... beavers built dams

[Elena]

Elena, Thank you!

Somehow I was looking for recipes from elk,

Therefore, I posted the recipe. Well, nowhere is there a recipe for beaver sausage .... So that no one else is "killed" and I will be glad if someone comes in handy.

in Switzerland cats.

And I didn't know about that either. So what?
In my opinion, I did not say anything offensive to anyone. Why so many letters and emotions ...

and not so long ago they tried to treat me to bear meat

The beaver has an advantage here - unlike bear meat, trichinosis from it, due to its vegetarian diet, is unlikely to catch.

And last year in the bishopric of New Orleans, alligators were classified as fish,

Give me a crocodile !!!

Today my husband and son were on the hunt, they brought, as I put it, a "mammoth")))) Today it was a beaver and this recipe turned out to be very useful. I will definitely do it. Such recipes for a family of hunters are a godsend. Thank you very much.

[Anyuta73]

Anyuta73, Try it by all means! Just first let it rest in the refrigerator for a couple of days. Fresh meat should, as they say, mature a little :) I had it after freezing. And try the cutlets, half with pork and more onions (in the oven).

[Valentine]

Valentine, thanks for the advice. Yesterday we tried the liver .... amazing .... Soft, tender .... no words))))