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TURTLE PIE

11/2C turtle meat ........... 1 onion, diced
cut into cubes ........... 3 TBSP butter
3 TBSP flour .......... 11/2C water

Brown meat in butter; add diced onions and salt and pepper to taste. Add the water and let simmer for about an hour then remove meat from water and put in a greased casserole dish. Make a thin flour paste and add to the turtle meat. Make a baking powder biscuit dough and cover the casserole with it. Bake in hot oven at 350 until biscuit dough is golden brown.

This recipe came from an old cook book I found, dated 1971

Ron:D

RE: anyone here eat turtles?
 

I havn't had turtle in years but reading this has really inspired me to go catch a few. My mom used to fix some kind of stew out of snappers me and my dad would catch when I was a kid and I loved it. She died 10 years ago though so I have no way of finding out how she made it.
I remember how we would catch them though. We'd use chicken gizzards as bait(liver and really any type of meat would work but gizzards stay on the hook really well and for a long time) and just put it on some nylon twine and make a sturdy leader out of some wire so they wouldn't bite through the line. We'd toss them out into one of our ponds and almost allways by the next day we'd have a turtle on.
I also remember my dad keeping them in big tub of water for a week or two before he clean them. He'd change the water every few days and when the water stayed clean for a day or two we'd clean them. This was done so they turles could "clean themselves out" of all the nasty rotten stuff they eat and would supposedly give them a better flavor. I wouldn't think that would be necessary if the turtles came from a nice clean lake or stream but the ponds we caught them from also had cattle around them so I suppose that's why he did that.

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I still havent cooked any yet I catch them all the time I just havent had the urge to try cooking one yet but I will eventually

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I finally ate some turtle the other night, I went to a friends and he had cooked a huge pot of turtle in what id call some sort of stew(I think it was nothing but turtle though?) and it was awesome it reminded me of chicken & dumplins. But now turtles high on my list of things to learn to cook my self. So does anyone else have a recipie or anything?

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I caught one once. I busted his shell up and removed the meat.I floured that puppy up and fried it.Taste like chicken but I felt real bad busting him out of the shell.I won't do it again.
Chuck

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Put some catfish on a stringer and put them in the water. The turtles will eat your two biggest. Believe me. [:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@]

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I ate one once as a kid, lots of work to get at the meat. Didn't seem worth it.

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I've been eating turtle several times a year for as long as I can remember. Soft-shells are good but the big snappers are best. You need one about as big around as a 5-gallon bucket. We always boil ours before we clean it, but you don't have to. It just makes the skin come off easier. Then cut the legs off and clean them up. You can also eat the neck. Pressure cooking is reccomended to make it tender.I always put mine ina egg and milk mixture before I flour them. Next salt and peper and put in flour and fry. They are very tasty. You can also fry the eggs, they have a stronger taste but are also good.

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Green Sea Turtles and Logger Head Turtles, these get up to 300-500
pounds.

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I have had turtle jerky it was alright!