What is easiest/best way to cook squirrels?

I have never eaten or cooked squirrels, however my deer lease is apparently a trophy squirrel ranch, so I intend to shoot and cook some.

I have no idea what I'm doing. What are the easiest ways to get edible results without a pressure cooker?

I ate a lot of squirrel as a kid and now don't care much for it. Wrap in bacon and grill or boil until the meat falls of and mix with rice and cream of mushroom soup.

And my personal favorite: Squirrel dumplins

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir2.html

Thanks!

Boil for 30 minutes, roll in flour and then fry in grease and a skillet. The ones old enough to vote will obviously be tougher.

That's the way I grew up eating them. Don't forget to cook the head, too.

Damn, that hard up right there. I'm not sure I would eat squirrel filet mignon but I know I wouldn't eat a squirrel head.

A friend of mines aunt was a model for vanity fair back in the 70's. Good looking lady, educated and world traveler. Ive watched her and his dad fight over fried squirrel heads.

If you need some help thinning them down let me know. I can always use new territory to look at. The boys get used to hunting the same land and need some new squirrels to tree.

Eating a squirrel head is not an attractive quality in a woman, model or no model.

There's a good metaphor in there somewhere.

Don't disagree, haha.

Uhhhhhh, no thanks.

Lots of old country folks liked squirrel brain's and eggs.

Momma always cooked the head course we also ate hog brains

that's just funny as hail!

My MIL gets mad if you won't cut the brains out of a doe to get them brains.

Yeah, it just never seemed right.

Have dogs will travel lol

My great grandad would beat my dad if he shot a squirrel in the head with a 22. I never tried them though.

Nothing wrong with brains and eggs!

How you cook a squirrel all depends on how old the squirrel is. Old squirrels are tough as leather and need to be boiled to tenderize them while young squirrels are ready for a pot or pan right after cleaning. You'll know if you need to boil one when you skin it. If it's hard to pull the skin off, it needs to be boiled. Young squirrels sometimes pull in two when skinning because they're so tender.

When I skin and clean squirrels I leave the rear legs together and leave the back with them all the way to the bottom rib like a saddle of frog legs. There's a good bit of backstrap meat on the back. I haven't eaten a squirrel head/brains since I was a kid but there's a good bit of meat on the head too.

A few years ago, a man I know got sick. He went all over the country seeing doctors, trying to find out what was wrong with him. They determined that he had something similar to mad cow disease, contracted from eating squirrel brains. It killed him, so eat them squirrel brains if you want.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/29/us/ken...els-brains.html

yeah i'd like to try squirrel brains as well, and probably would once. won't make a habit of it myself.