carp cakes and beaver tail

[buffalo man]

Once read that carp ground up like crab cakes were good, any recipes?
Also most of the old trappers made note of how good beaver tail was, any recipes.
Can't wait to see the wise cracks about beaver tail, but all the greats; Jim Bridges ect. made comments.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Beaver tail makes more sense than Buffalo testicles..Just my opinion..

[lcoast]

I have eaten beaver tail and didn't care too much for it. I like muskrat tail much better. Part of the thing with them old timers was all the buffalo they ate. Pretty lean meat. You get working a trap line in the cold mountains, hands in cold water, sleeping outside, going lots of days with no fires because some indians were about. Your body tends to eat up all its exras. When you get there, fat is welcome and tastes pretty awesome. Your body craves it. When I lived up north, vegetarians did not do well if they lived out of town. most of them didn't do well in town either. Summers were okay but winters were hard on them. We always ket alot of bacon slabs around.

=keith=

[t.couvillon]

Buff Man
Skin and debone the carp, remove bloodline if any, cut in pieces then boil in a Louisiana type crab boil. Mix with onions, bread crumbs, parsley garlic, add seasoning to taste and an  egg or two depending on the batch you want to make. Cook in a pan with butter and olive oil brown on one side then turn and brown the other. I may sound ambiguous on the seasonig, but I am Cajun and I dont want to burn you. I do the same with our Buffalo ( Red Carp) and Black Drum (SaltwaterServe with Tartar sauce or ketchup or cocktail sauce or make your own.

[Doug Campbell]

Muskrat tail? Man now that'd take a bunch to make a mess    

Ah Barb ya gotta be adventurous, ya meght even be  pleasantly suprised sometimes.   :D  

Been eating carp cakes all my life. We just can em per canning instructions then make patties and fry em up. My wife says fix em just like salmon patties after the canning. Good stuff and it's a good way to use all those bowfishing harvests.

Doug

[brmize]

My great grandma made carp cakes she just pressure cooked the whole cleaned carp bones included and then made patties and fried them up just like samon patties.
Brian

[buffalo man]

The "pressure cook" the whole cleaned carp is what I was looking for. Heard it worked real well, but it had been several years and could'nt remember the details.
I have eaten beaver on several occassions, but not the tail. Any beaver tail recipes?