The Hunter’s Guide to Butchering, Smoking and Curing Wild Game and Fish
by Philip Hasheider
Published by Voyageur Press – Oct 2013 – Paperback – 224pp – 23.5cm x 18.5cm
Expert Philip Hasheider shows you how to turn your hard-earned hunt into delicious cuisine.
Truly avid hunters are always looking for ways to get the most out of their game and maximize their yield. Look no further: this book offers essential tips and background information, as well as coveted recipes, for hunters, chefs, and food lovers alike.
The Hunter’s Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and Curing Wild Game and Fish gives hunters all the information they need for processing and preparing their harvested game to create the most flavourful and creative meals. The book takes you from field dressing to skinning and cutting the carcass, to preserving and storing, to making sausage and cured meat, to preparing delicious, well-rounded meals for the dinner table. It offers detailed step-by-step instructions, complete with illustrations and full-colour photography, as well as a variety of mouthwatering recipes.
Hasheider covers all the major game and fish species, including large game, such as deer, moose, elk, bighorn sheep, wild boar, bear, and alligator; small game, such as rabbit, raccoon, opossum, squirrel, muskrat, beaver, turtle, armadillo, groundhog, woodchuck, and snakes; upland game birds like grouse, quail, partridge, pheasant, dove, pigeon, squab, and wild turkey; a range of ducks, mergansers, geese, and other waterfowl; and a variety of fresh- and saltwater fish species like bass, catfish, eel, marlin, perch, pike, salmon, sturgeon, sunfish, swordfish, trout, tuna, walleye, whitefish, and more. With its holistic approach to every aspect of wild game preparation, The Hunters Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and Curing Wild Game and Fish is a book no hunter will want to be without.
Philip Hasheider is a farmer and writer. He's the author of multiple books including How to Raise Cattle and How to Raise Pigs as well as The Ultimate Guide to Butchering, Smoking, Curing, Sausage and Jerky Making. A former cheesemaker's assistant, he lives on a farm near Sauk City, Wisconsin.
