Dove Cooking

Red Hawk · 08-01-2002, 12:18 AM

I got this from a book called 'dress em out' This is called the 'Poor man's Feast"

Try this when camping, hunting spall birds, particular doves. Best to use doves that have been shot within half an hour of cooking time. Field dress the ones you want to keep and store. Take remaining ones and rather then draw them, simply cut off the heads, legs and wings but leave the feathers, entrails, etc intact. Get some mud from a stream or lake and cover each bird entirely, forming a round ball and immediately place them on hot coals for one hour. Take them out and crack open. Sprinkle them with alittle black or red pepper and eat right out of the mud shell. This method of steaming will produce meat that is juicy and truly delicious. Try the liver and heart for a pleasant suprise.

If anyone actually does this, let me know because i am curious about it. Thanks

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Edited by - Red Hawk on 08/01/2002 15:29:55

bruce_smith60 · 08-01-2002, 07:35 AM

I breast them out,
Put a small cut in both brests,
Insert a slice of ***alao pepper,
Wrap with bacon and put on pit about 20 min.
Place on plate and put some sreeded cheese over it and
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JoeA · 08-09-2002, 03:57 PM

I might have to try it. I've had fish cooked that way. It was okay.

KY SCENT-LOK · 08-25-2002, 09:32 PM

The way bruce stated is very good. If you add pineapple to each side of dove then wrap in bacon with jalopeno in center is even better I believe.

Tree climber · 08-26-2002, 04:46 AM

I like'em stewed down in a dark gravy.<img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

I am not a hunter I am a whitetail population reduction specialest

remember keep your back to the sun, your knife sharp, and your powder dry.

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azhunter · 09-04-2002, 04:55 PM

Just got back from dove hunting this weekend. One of the other hunters fried them up, but instead of using egg or beer with the badder, he marinated the dove breast in a mixture of sour cream, mustard and hot sauce. Then rolled them in the corn meal mixture and threw them in the fryer. That was some of the best dove I have ever had.

smokpole · 09-06-2002, 07:35 AM

I just cooked up a mess of dove last night that was outstanding. But, this is the old fashioned Southern style of cooking dove, not the healtiest way to eat.

10 birds breasted, helps to make sure you get all the shot and hair out of the breast.

dip them in egg n milk and then flour seasoned with salt/pepr and garlic.

Fry them in bacon grease.

Save the grease and crumbly's and make brown gravy using flour and one 8oz can of chicken broth.

Serve this up with fried tators & onions and corn on the cob.

Now that's the proper way to eat dove!!

BigKid · 09-14-2002, 09:53 AM

I prefer not to breast out doves. My father would have wooped my ass had I ever done that. He believes in eating the whole animal - no waste. So the way we cook them is to pluck em, gut em, stuff jalepeno/onion inside their body, wrap with bacon pinned with a tool pick. We then drop them in peanut oil and fry them until they float. Talk about juicy! They are fantastic like this.

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