Tealeaf said:
OMG! Mr T! I thought you were joking with that but mtheads just told me that they actually do! Apparently they wrap them in clay and cook them on a bonfire, is that correct?Dirty, evil gits!!!
Hedgehogs
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OMG! Mr T! I thought you were joking with that but mtheads just told me that they actually do! Apparently they wrap them in clay and cook them on a bonfire, is that correct?Dirty, evil gits!!!
yes, Tinks it is true......when they pull the clay off all the skin and spikes come off too leaving the roasted meat underneath....don't know if they eat the innards.....YUK!
I think roast hedgehog is a Romany delicacy - not your average "traveller" who tends to feast on cheeseburgers and chips.
I haven't seen a live hedgehog for years (plenty of road-kill ones) and I really wish they'd come into my garden because I'm always fighting a battle with slugs and snails. I have half a dozen different varieties of hostas, in a corner, and they are Slug Heaven. If I could only entice a hedgehog to come and live with me it could have the best of everything - I'd even provide it with its own kennel - and it would never go hungry.
I haven't seen a live hedgehog for years (plenty of road-kill ones) and I really wish they'd come into my garden because I'm always fighting a battle with slugs and snails. I have half a dozen different varieties of hostas, in a corner, and they are Slug Heaven. If I could only entice a hedgehog to come and live with me it could have the best of everything - I'd even provide it with its own kennel - and it would never go hungry.
I was once given a whole load of lupins for my garden....they were full of slugs...I used to go out when it got dark and catch the blighters and pour salt on them.....I was fighting a losing battle and in the end I got rid of the lupins and put flags down....no digging, no weeding.....but not much colour.
A recipe for Tinkerbelle and mthead:
Clay-baked wild birds or hedgehogs
This isn't one to try at home (you could well fall foul of wildlife protection laws, apart from anything else), but the easiest way to cook wild birds (or hedgehogs for that matter) is not to pluck them but to smear wet clay onto the feathers. The birds are then cooked on an open fire and the feathers and skin come away when they are cooked. The same thing happens with the spines of hedgehogs, which were traditionally clay-baked by the Romany people. The meat is said to taste like pork – hence the hedgehog's name.
Clay-baked wild birds or hedgehogs
This isn't one to try at home (you could well fall foul of wildlife protection laws, apart from anything else), but the easiest way to cook wild birds (or hedgehogs for that matter) is not to pluck them but to smear wet clay onto the feathers. The birds are then cooked on an open fire and the feathers and skin come away when they are cooked. The same thing happens with the spines of hedgehogs, which were traditionally clay-baked by the Romany people. The meat is said to taste like pork – hence the hedgehog's name.
yerself said:
You are a very bad man Mr Yerself .......... 
Tinkerbelle said:
If you want to try the odd ducky bird Tinks you should singe off the feathers “if plucking isn’t you bag” and then wrap it in dock leaves quite tightly and then put a layer of clay all way round. Don’t for get to gut the bird first are it might go bang at some point.
For your oven, dig a decent pit in the back garden and fill it with all the bits of tree you have left over from your neighbour’s revenge sortie and place an assortment of manageable stones on top of the wood and then produce a flame and set fire to it.
Allow the wood to burn away and let the stones fall into the pit, clear away some of the ash and place you balls of clay on the stones cover them with a few branches left over from your tree and then back fill your pit with ash and earth. Leave to cook for around half an hour per pound. When cooked remove the earth and carefully extract your balls and split the clay apart. Pull back the leaves, which you can eat and then enjoy you meal.
Yes it’s hard work, but lets face it you’re not short of a few logs and you will be hard pushed ever to eat such a tasty fresh cooked meal.
Doug said:
In between 2 Nori's with Yerselfs if you don't stop it
when i was 10 years old me and a girl found a hedgehog in a field and we adopted it as our own and left it slugs which we found under large stones etc to eat
it was only after 7 days that we realised that it wasnt actualy moving from where we left it and i turned it over to discover it had been half eaten away by maggots
also later in my mid 20's i found 2 baby hedgehogs outside my flat in church been tormented by cats , the cats got a brick each thrown at them and i put the baby hedgehogs safely i a nearby bush
in my late 20's i went out to burnley and spent my taxi fare on booze and to kill time on the walk home i played football with a round object which i later found to be a hedgehog after kicking it around for about 10 mins , i like to think my previous 2 acts of kindness cancell out this honest mistake
it was only after 7 days that we realised that it wasnt actualy moving from where we left it and i turned it over to discover it had been half eaten away by maggots
also later in my mid 20's i found 2 baby hedgehogs outside my flat in church been tormented by cats , the cats got a brick each thrown at them and i put the baby hedgehogs safely i a nearby bush
in my late 20's i went out to burnley and spent my taxi fare on booze and to kill time on the walk home i played football with a round object which i later found to be a hedgehog after kicking it around for about 10 mins , i like to think my previous 2 acts of kindness cancell out this honest mistake
Was Ray Mears that horrible swine of a govener in Prisoner Cell Block H???
grannyclaret said:Was Ray Mears that horrible swine of a govener in Prisoner Cell Block H???
He He He!!
He's one of these outdoor bush tucker guys Granny
Nay. Ray Mears is a survival specialist who appears on t'telly. He teaches how to survive for 6 months in the wilderness with nothing more than a penknife and a piece of string. You come out fatter than when you went in.
Did I ever tell you about my survival course, involving two slices of Hovis and a live frog? If you could eat that, you didn't need the course...
Did I ever tell you about my survival course, involving two slices of Hovis and a live frog? If you could eat that, you didn't need the course...
Oh,sorry i never heard of him.. but the guy i am thinking of was in neighbours too,,,oooh he gave me the creeps in prisoner
oh god no... he was much more sinister...he had a lot of freckles.and i am almost sure he was called ray mears or megre or something...
OH MY GOD.......
