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Why bacon? To me, wrapping delicately flavored game with bacon is like creating a hot dog. Ruffs should be eaten cooked just done, along with complementary side dishes.

Think about your favorite style of bacon.
Grilled bacon is just one way of dozens that make you smile.

You can’t go wrong wrapping a piece of grouse in bacon.

But if you don’t like grilled bacon, then what?

And if someone suggests that Brussels sprouts and ruffed grouse can be combined gastronomically, I will petition the court for their mental health evaluation.

Has anyone tried wet ageing tough game birds, say breasts of old pheasants, sharptails, or geese?
Friends say it does wonders with venison and other big game cuts and is a standard value-added commercial practice with beef. I've never tried it as I didn't want to tie up space in my refrigerator for 30-60 days.

Old pheasants make great bratwurst.
Breasts, wings, thighs.
Smoke the carcass, boil them down. Pick the meat, strain the broth, discard the rest.

99% of the public only want the crown.
Kind of a waste publishing decades of recipes that will never get made. Not worth the work.
Real ruffed grouse Marsala over fresh linguini.

I have just read about cooking badger in an old German hunting magazine. It said to skin it then leave it in a fast running stream for five days before cooking it. Hm!!!

I’d have to be really hungry to consider tangling with, skinning, and eating a badger.

Hungrier than I’ve ever been, I’m going to guess.

Bet you have to wrap his ass with a bunch of bacon.....

Best,
Ted

Badgers of any kind have my respect. There's a video, going around recently, taken of a honey badger that is wrapped in the coils of a 9 ft. python. The constrictor is slowly tightening the wraps on the badger, but he continues to struggle to get free, which he does. Then, instead of running off he attacks the python and kills it. As he is doing so two jackals try to move in and steal the meal from the badger. No dice. The badger runs off both jackals, then drags the python into the brush.

Predators so adeptly equipped as the raptors and badgers will be given a pass on my gastronomic bucket list. I did know a man who claimed to have eaten a hawk. When I asked him how it tasted he replied wryly, "Most like an owl."

treat grouse like chicken...yum yum...happy new year to awl...

Ever been to a big wild 'game' feed at a sportsman's club? I went to one in Mandan years ago with 27 kinds of meat on the menu. Everything from mountain lion to prairie dog and rattlesnake to snapping turtle. All were
quite edible although I found the porcupine required a few extra shots of whiskey to help cut the grease.

I love wild game suppers at Southern churches. The only Canada goose I ever tried and actually enjoyed was at one at a church in Princeton, KY.