Speaking of bears?

[shooter93]

I read a lot of first person history books. Written by the people who lived at the time. I have often come across a reference to one of their most favorite meals was Bear meat and honey. I have never seen just what that meant though. Was it honey cured when it was smoked? or was it served with honey? Also I have seen very few references to them liking Beaver tails....in fact quite the opposite.

[waksupi]

I don't know about bear and honey, but I do know you can have all of my share of beaver tail. Nasty stuff to eat. I suspect it was a tale started by old timers to sucker pilgrims. I'd have to be awful hungry to think it was good eating.

[10x]

Bear can be cooked very much like pork. It can also be cured like pork.
Any honey glaze pork recipe will work well with bear meat.

Just do not render bear fat and use it to soften the leather on saddles and harnesses for horses.
Apparently horses do not like the smell of bear fat or bears. My uncle found this out in the 1930s ….

[NyFirefighter357]

I watch Steven Rinella's show Meateater and also listen to the podcast. He just produced a cook book The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook. The eat what they kill. He's very knowledgeable and a very respectable hunter. The shows aren't a bunch of gun & equipment advertisements. They roast beaver tail & say it's very good. Him & his crew got contracted Trichinosis eating undercooked bear meat in Alaska on a hunt. https://youtu.be/Rx5ZKJ0Vozc

[OldBearHair]

Never make jerky from raw pig, coon, or bear and I am not sure of what else carries Trichinosis..but there has to be an expert here that knows more. Please enlighten us.

[Lloyd Smale]

If you use the proper amount of curing salt (real curing salt not table salt) and cook it to 145 degrees and preferably 160 it will be safe. Ive ate lots of jerky made from bear meat.

[Lloyd Smale]

never at beaver tail but have had my uncles beaver stew and it was pretty tasty.
I don't know about bear and honey, but I do know you can have all of my share of beaver tail. Nasty stuff to eat. I suspect it was a tale started by old timers to sucker pilgrims. I'd have to be awful hungry to think it was good eating.

[dragon813gt]

I watch Steven Rinella's show Meateater and also listen to the podcast. He just produced a cook book The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook.

There are two books. The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game: Volume 1: Big Game and Volume 2 for small game. I read them but haven’t had a chance to try any of the recipes. I enjoy his books and listening to him talk. Meat Eater is not your typical hunting show which is a good thing.

[WheelgunConvert]

This guy shows up about this time every year since 2012. Protected here in LA.
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[Hickok]

Yogi tore up my feeder and I ain't happy about it.

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[dragon813gt]

Yogi tore up my feeder and I ain't happy about it.

Well he is smarter than the average bear 🧐

[jonp]

Well he is smarter than the average bear ��

Nice Yogie reference. [smilie=l:

Soak bear overnight in milk then cook it up

[gon2shoot]

Beaver tail and green persimmon stew will make you a better hunter.

[white eagle]

bear meat is very tasty
love it

[10x]

Nice Yogie reference. [smilie=l:

Soak bear overnight in milk then cook it up

First you shoot the bear....

[jonp]

First you shoot the bear....

People sure are getting soft

[sureYnot]

Never make jerky from raw pig, coon, or bear and I am not sure of what else carries Trichinosis..but there has to be an expert here that knows more. Please enlighten us.If it has a cloven hoof AND chews it's cud, you're safe. Deer, goat, cattle, etc. Anything else should be cooked well done.

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[10x]

People sure are getting soft

Skin 'im Pilgrim!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMQnDrBp60

[10x]

Yogi tore up my feeder and I ain't happy about it.

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You are sure it is a bear???

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[GOPHER SLAYER]

Townsend Whelen said beaver tail was his favorite wild meat. I never found anything that was hunted and cooked that I found tasty.

[quilbilly]

I love bear roasts. They have been better than the best pork roasts I have ever had. This is only true if they have spent their summers and falls dining on dead salmon.

[shooter93]

I'm with Waksupi or maybe some had always had better tasting things than Beaver tail so it was way down on the list. It is interesting to me how so many of the people who wrote these books mention that Beaver tail wasn't eaten unless they had to. Has to be a reason. It's also interesting that some members here like it. Maybe as simple as different tastes.