Racoon Meat

A shredded BBQ coon sandwich on light bread is tough to beat.

ETA: I don't have a recipe but there was an old man in town that used to make bbq coon.

I asked him how he did it and he told me he just baked it in the oven, then shredded the meat and mixed it up with bbq sauce. After he mixed it up with sauce he put it in the freezer. He said freezing it would make the meat absorb the sauce better. When he got ready to eat it he would heat it up in the oven and make a sandwich with light bread.

It was delicious.

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lsutiger2010

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I'm gonna have to Upvote this.

curiosity I guess.

I have personally never cooked coon, but my grandmother-in-law cooked it all the time.
It was GPIL’s favorite meat. He was a trapper back in the day.

The key, she always told me, was parboiling the meat before you baked it.

She always baked hers with yams.

That’s all I got.

First you make a roux.....
Wait, first you remove the glands, then you make a roux. Threw a whole black iron pot, roux, fixins and coon out the camp window because it wasn’t cleaned properly. Stunk up the place for the whole next day.

They eat my deer corn, I eat them.

At my old camp, we had a trapper from Northern Missouri come down in February to trap the place. A local wanted to buy his coons, to which he replied he sold them to a fur company. He said “naw, I want tha meat, I don’t need no furs”. They ended up selling a whole lot of Coon meat.

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He said “naw, I want tha meat, I don’t need no furs”. They ended up selling a whole lot of Coon meat.

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Way back in the day, I trapped/hunted them. Pelts would bring in $12 to as much as $25. The meat sold for $5 for a small, $6 med and $7 large. Was easy making $300 a night. Oh, one had to leave a foot.

I pretty much lived off of coon and nutria for a few months when I was trying to pay LSU tuition out of pocket. Trap a city coon that lives by a smoothie king dumpster. Fruit fed lol. I used catfish skinning pliers to pluck the glands out. Bake it low and slow. I'd also run through a grinder and have coon taco meat.