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Title: Mudball birds
Post by: 10thumbs on March 13, 2021, 08:18:59 PM
  Don't know if this has been posted before, but To cook a bird without tools, they can be plastered with about an inch of mud and baked in the fire. The mud cooks from the outside, sealing the moisture in. When its done (6 or 8 hours for a chicken) break the mudball. The feathers stick to the mud and the skin sticks to the feathers. The meat comes out steam-cooked and tender. And when the breast and back are separated, all the innards fall out together. Delicious!
Title: Re: Mudball birds
Post by: rollingb on March 13, 2021, 10:49:35 PM
  Don't know if this has been posted before, but To cook a bird without tools, they can be plastered with about an inch of mud and baked in the fire. The mud cooks from the outside, sealing the moisture in. When its done (6 or 8 hours for a chicken) break the mudball. The feathers stick to the mud and the skin sticks to the feathers. The meat comes out steam-cooked and tender. And when the breast and back are separated, all the innards fall out together. Delicious!

Both,.... Ohio Joe, and I, have ate chicken cooked this way and enjoyed it.  :hairy  :*:  :)
Title: Re: Mudball birds
Post by: Nessmuk on March 14, 2021, 07:19:38 PM
I've had Partridge  cooked like that. Best I've  ever tasted.
Title: Re: Mudball birds
Post by: Ohio Joe on March 14, 2021, 09:15:06 PM
  Don't know if this has been posted before, but To cook a bird without tools, they can be plastered with about an inch of mud and baked in the fire. The mud cooks from the outside, sealing the moisture in. When its done (6 or 8 hours for a chicken) break the mudball. The feathers stick to the mud and the skin sticks to the feathers. The meat comes out steam-cooked and tender. And when the breast and back are separated, all the innards fall out together. Delicious!

Both,.... Ohio Joe, and I, have ate chicken cooked this way and enjoyed it.  :hairy  :*:  :)

Indeed we have, and it was excellent! Rondo and I bestowed 1st Place on that meal when we were food judges at the Chadron Fur Trade Days Rendezvous... Wow Rondo, that was some years back - wasn't it. Good times / great food for sure!  :hairy :shake
Title: Re: Mudball birds
Post by: Doc Nock on March 16, 2021, 04:51:37 PM
i have (and still have) a good friiend from the soft coal region of central pa that said as kids, thyeyd catch Creek Chubs and do thm that way..

Personally I never tried it with fish or fowl..
Title: Re: Mudball birds
Post by: Ohio Joe on March 16, 2021, 05:12:52 PM
  Don't know if this has been posted before, but To cook a bird without tools, they can be plastered with about an inch of mud and baked in the fire. The mud cooks from the outside, sealing the moisture in. When its done (6 or 8 hours for a chicken) break the mudball. The feathers stick to the mud and the skin sticks to the feathers. The meat comes out steam-cooked and tender. And when the breast and back are separated, all the innards fall out together. Delicious!

Both,.... Ohio Joe, and I, have ate chicken cooked this way and enjoyed it.  :hairy  :*:  :)

Hey Rondo, if I recall - wasn't that ol' Blu and his group he ran with at Rondy that did the ol' mud chicken? I can't think of the other guys name's that always use to set up camp together? They were great fun!!! I'm kind of thinking ol' Blu was from Michigan?  :)
Title: Re: Mudball birds
Post by: rollingb on March 17, 2021, 04:54:36 AM
  Don't know if this has been posted before, but To cook a bird without tools, they can be plastered with about an inch of mud and baked in the fire. The mud cooks from the outside, sealing the moisture in. When its done (6 or 8 hours for a chicken) break the mudball. The feathers stick to the mud and the skin sticks to the feathers. The meat comes out steam-cooked and tender. And when the breast and back are separated, all the innards fall out together. Delicious!

Both,.... Ohio Joe, and I, have ate chicken cooked this way and enjoyed it.  :hairy  :*:  :)

Hey Rondo, if I recall - wasn't that ol' Blu and his group he ran with at Rondy that did the ol' mud chicken? I can't think of the other guys name's that always use to set up camp together? They were great fun!!! I'm kind of thinking ol' Blu was from Michigan?  :)
I'll be darned if I can remember Joe,.... but it was so good I'll never forget that poor ol' chicken.  :laffing   :*:
Title: Re: Mudball birds
Post by: Ohio Joe on March 17, 2021, 06:56:17 PM
  Don't know if this has been posted before, but To cook a bird without tools, they can be plastered with about an inch of mud and baked in the fire. The mud cooks from the outside, sealing the moisture in. When its done (6 or 8 hours for a chicken) break the mudball. The feathers stick to the mud and the skin sticks to the feathers. The meat comes out steam-cooked and tender. And when the breast and back are separated, all the innards fall out together. Delicious!

Both,.... Ohio Joe, and I, have ate chicken cooked this way and enjoyed it.  :hairy  :*:  :)

Hey Rondo, if I recall - wasn't that ol' Blu and his group he ran with at Rondy that did the ol' mud chicken? I can't think of the other guys name's that always use to set up camp together? They were great fun!!! I'm kind of thinking ol' Blu was from Michigan?  :)
I'll be darned if I can remember Joe,.... but it was so good I'll never forget that poor ol' chicken.  :laffing   :*:

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It was good!!!  :hairy