<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/834ff86c-5b11-4d4d-8292-48747eccd85d/19AF8CA2-3D70-4DBF-9AC6-D7599B03216D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes.html" href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.pbs.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes.html"><P> <IMG width="104" height="15" border="0" alt="Muskrat%20Recipes" src="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/images/rec_hdr.gif" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.pbs.org/img/621418AA-A419-4935-9A4B-1C4F37BA35B3" alt="Rats have a sweet expression. –John Root Hopkins, Muskrat Cookin’" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes.html"><DIV id="grey33"> <A href="%23bop"><IMG width="203" height="136" border="0" alt="A%20woman%20in%20a%20blue%20T-shirt%20stands%20at%20a%20kitchen%20counter%2C%20preparing%20bowls%20of%20food.%20Inset:%20video%20icon%20link" src="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/images/rec_1_sbpic.jpg" /></A> <A class="muskpage" href="%23bop">"Thank goodness I only have three rats to skin."</A> (1:34) Rhonda Aaron cooks and competes in the skinning competition. (note: clip contains graphic muskrat skinning footage) </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes.html"><P> Muskrats, known as “rats” to the real experts, have a hunting season that runs roughly from November to March, at least in Dorchester County. Rats live in huts of straw and are semi-aquatic, weighing just a few pounds as adults. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes.html"><P> “The main rule in cooking rat,” says John Root Hopkins, Dorchester Country resident and author of <I>Muskrat Cookin’</I> (3rd Edition, 2002), “is to overcook to the point where the meat can be easily removed from the bone.” </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="smallh"><A class="muskpage" href="%23sw">Southwestern Muskrat</A> <A class="muskpage" href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes2.html">BBQ Muskrat</A> <A class="muskpage" href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes2.html%23ole">Mom's Old Fashioned Muskrat</A> <A class="muskpage" href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes2.html%23pic">Picante-Cranberry Muskrat</A> <A class="muskpage" href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes2.html%23corn">Corn Bread</A> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muskratlovely/recipes.html"><P> Note: I usually go through the muskrat meat several times before adding to mixture because there are hundreds of little bones on a muskrat. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/19AF8CA2-3D70-4DBF-9AC6-D7599B03216D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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