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Opossum and Sweet Potatoes Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 ea opossum
12 ea sweet potatoes
3 ea red hot pepper pods
1 tsp salt
½ tsp black pepper fresh ground
Directions:
Directions:
Catch live opossum. place it in a pen and feed grain for a week to clean it out. Heat water in large pot to 148 ºF, big enough to hold all of opossum. Kill opossum by placing a wood stick over neck. bend knees while holding the opossum tail. Straighten knees while still holding tail this should break neck killing opossum. Once opossum is not moving place in heated water leave for a couple of minutes remove the opossum from water and pull hair from him. Remove head feet, and entrails. Wash opossum well, Salt and pepper it, and put in a baking pan. put red Pepper pods inside of opossum. Peel the sweet potatoes and place in pan around the opossum. Bake in oven at 350ºF for until opossum meat is coming off bones. brush vinegar over opossum while it is cooking every 15 minutes.

 

 

 

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