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Tips on Freezing Game Birds

Appears in
Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1972

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Success in freezing game birds depends to no small extent on their care after they are killed. It is important to remove the body heat as soon as possible by allowing space between them rather than by piling them in the car trunk. Deterioration is rapid when birds are stacked. Often it is best to have the birds frozen at a locker plant near the hunting grounds if the trip home is long. Be sure birds are drawn before freezing.

Farm people prepare game birds for freezing much the same as poultry, but they do find it desirable to pluck wild ducks and geese dry, or without scalding. They scald pheasants in hot water below the boiling point, or with a temperature of 155 to 160°.

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