Fancy a hog?

A hedgehog that is? I wrote about offal and eating hedgehogs and all that on The Observer. Meanwhile, from the Belfast Telegraph,

According to medieval experts: "Hedgehog should have its throat cut, be singed and gutted, then trussed like a pullet, then pressed in a towel until very dry; and then roast it and eat with cameline sauce, or in pastry with wild duck sauce. Note that if the hedgehog refuses to unroll, put it in hot water." This is, however, a dish based on traditional methods of cooking meat going back to prehistoric times.

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Comments

[Jamie]

Hi Graeme. My better half spends a lot of time in Africa thanks to her job. She informs me that the porcupine she ate in Cameroon, having watched it being staked then skinned, was 'probably the worst thing I've ever eaten'. So don't go there.