But seriously: our parents’ neighbor did trap squirrels and cooked them in a stew, or roasted the whole thing on a spit… He gave that meat to them too, and mother usually made a stew or cooked it in a soup. She also learned from his wife how to make a terrine (a meat loaf), and a tourtière (meat pie).
He showed us how he killed them, and skinned them, dried the fur and later made it into slippers and sold them at the flee market, etc. … He learned the trade from his father. He said that he wanted to teach his kids how to do it, but they were to squeamish …
But seriously: our parents’ neighbor did trap squirrels and cooked them in a stew, or roasted the whole thing on a spit… He gave that meat to them too, and mother usually made a stew or cooked it in a soup. She also learned from his wife how to make a terrine (a meat loaf), and a tourtière (meat pie).
He showed us how he killed them, and skinned them, dried the fur and later made it into slippers and sold them at the flee market, etc. … He learned the trade from his father. He said that he wanted to teach his kids how to do it, but they were to squeamish …