DIY Butcher of Wild Game

HI,

I located this .pdf from Michigan State University Extension on HOW TO FIELD DRESS - BUTCHER - PREPARE/COOK/PRESERVE (Michigan) Venison.

How to cut up a squirrel for cooking

The Joy of Cooking*'s chapter on game has a diagram of how to skin a squirrel, and another of how to skin a rabbit. Other game addressed in the chapter are possum, porcupine, raccoon, muskrat, woodchuck, beaver, armadillo, venison, bear, and boar. Another reason to make The Joy of Cooking the cookbook you take with you to the desert island.

*1975 edition

Katie wrote:The Joy of Cooking*'s chapter on game has a diagram of how to skin a squirrel, and another of how to skin a rabbit. Other game addressed in the chapter are possum, porcupine, raccoon, muskrat, woodchuck, beaver, armadillo, venison, bear, and boar. Another reason to make The Joy of Cooking the cookbook you take with you to the desert island.

*1975 edition

It is also includes information on how to dispatch a turtle.

The kindle version of the latest Joy of Cooking is on sale at Amazon right now for $2.99.

I mentioned that I was referring to the 1975 edition because I cannot vouch for the contents of any later editions. Here's an entertaining Bon Appetit article --- complete with the squirrel and rabbit skinning illustrations --- on the various levels of esteem in which various editions of The Joy are held. (From the article: “I don’t consider anything after 1975 to be Joy of Cooking,” said Bonnie Slotnick, owner of the iconic “out-of-print and antiquarian” cookbook store in New York City.) As of the writing of that article, the 2019 edition had not been published, and as the article mentions, Irma Rombauer's grandson's wife, coauthor of the 2019 edition, was cagey (ha ha) about whether or not the squirrel would stay in.