Coot Stew

"A humorous recipe from a very old cookbook."
 
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Ready In:
48hrs 10mins
Ingredients:
3
Serves:
6
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ingredients

  • 1 fat, coot (a marsh bird resembling a duck)
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 6 cups water
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directions

  • Place the bird in a kettle of water with the red building brick free of mortar and blemishes. Parboil the coot and the brick together for three hours. Pour off the water, refill the kettle, and again parboil for three hours. For the third time throw off the water, for the last time add fresh water, and let the coot and the brick simmer together overnight. In the morning throw away the coot and eat the brick.

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I love to cook! My husband is very thin so he can eat anything!! He was raised on a farm so was a meat and tater man. Used to say anything other than meat and taters was exotic food. <br>We've been married 40+ years so he is used to my experiments.
 
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