[pct-l] Rattlesnake

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Cheryl,

Cooking snake can be relatively simple without a recipe -- as such:  Obviously,
the first step is to catch and dispatch a snake.  Next, eviscerate it and
remove the less-than-useful front and back ends.  Finally, starting at the
front, peel off the skin.  You then have something that looks like a very
long, skinny fish.  If you end up with something large enough that you are
tempted to filet it, or slice it into stakes, I suggest you probably were in
over your head at Step-1.

This long piece can then be cut into appropriate lengths for your cooking
method:  Short pieces to brown in a pot for stew, or longer pieces to spear
on a stick and roast over an open flame like a hotdog.  The meat is a bit
dry so if you happen to have some oil you could rub it on the outside.  There
are lots of bones, but they are larger than fish bones and are more easily
avoided.

Somewhat like fish, it’s done when the pinkish, slightly translucent flesh
first turns white, then toasty brown.  I sprinkle on some salt and eat it
off the cooking stick.

Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Cheryl Christensen <cherylbyfaith at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Fresh meat! (No, I am not referring to the ijit...)
>
> Does anyone have a good recipe for Rattle Snake... preferably one that does
> NOT include 'freeze-dried' or 'dehydrated' anything?
>
>
> On 26 February 2011 19:57, CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>> Good evening, Diane,
>>
>> Considering that statistically the greatest number of snake bites is
>> sustained by: 1) young, 2) males, with, 3) alcohol, the ijit probably
>> says,
>> “Yo, dude, hold my beer and watch this!”
>>
>> Steel-Eye
>>
>> Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965
>>
>> http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
>>
>> http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com <
>> diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:
>>
>> > TrailHacker just emailed me the link to this dumb Man vs. Wild show.
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-29Vn87hWs&feature=related
>> >
>> > I don't get this channel and have never watched this show before.
>> > This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Get your road flare ready!
>> > These rattlesnakes are deadly scary.
>> >
>> > Pay attention closely, though, because this is actually how most
>> > rattlesnake bites occur. Some ijit saying "watch this!" while
>> > willfully provoking a snake.
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