Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook by Ken Beck and Jim Clark

Author:Ken Beck and Jim Clark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollinsChristianPublishing
Published: 2019-12-26T00:00:00+00:00

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BRISCOE: We’re knowed as a family of hearty-eatin’ men and beautiful, delicate women.

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Mitch’s Dear Darling Venison

Venison is wonderful meat, the finest product of an animal that chooses its diet all of its life—a lot more than you can say for a cow. A deer rambles around, picking a leaf here and a bud there and a lot of tender things like clover and alfalfa and soybeans and roasting ears and strawberries. By the time he finishes up on acorns, rose hips, apples, and other fall fatteners, his flesh is the ideal wild meat. No supplements, no chemicals, no fat to mention, although he stores up plenty in other places.

You take a whole deer ham and marinate it for several hours with ladles-full of white port wine, teriyaki sauce, and garlic salt. The alcohol cooks away, of course, but it leaves the fine nutty flavor that port wine is famous for, and it tenderizes the meat something wonderful. Use lots of black pepper and salt, and keep the meat wet with marinade for the best part of the day at room temperature.

The big part of cooking deer meat is suet, as deer fat is scarce and rank and causes what people call the wild taste. That isn’t the wild taste of venison at all as you’ll find out. Beef suet is the secret to cooking deer meat, and except for feeding birds, that’s about all it’s good for, and it’s free. You crisscross the roast with strips of suet and cook it like beef, basting it every half hour or so. You can cook it rare, like a standing rib, or done if you like it that way, but cook it until the outside is crisp and brown and your suet has turned to cracklings. What’s left of the marinade will turn the gravy into a feeding frenzy.

Now if you try that and still throw off on venison, you are probably the sort of person who wouldn’t like squirrel gravy, which is equivalent to admitting you have the taste buds of a store window dummy.

Mitch Jayne—cast member

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