Post by Okwes on Jun 29, 2007 19:05:53 GMT -5
Title: Lynx
Categories: Game, Native, Canadian, Jw
Yield: 1 Servings
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Lynx weigh up to 40 lbs. and is one of the few tasty carnivores. The
meat is white and very tender and can be quite fatty in the fall and
early winter. Excellent stewed.
From "Northern Cookbook by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada"
Posted by: Jim Weller
MMMMM
I had the opportunity to try lynx once. It was in a stew and tasted just as
described.
There is one surviving historic restaurant in Yellowknife called, very
appropriately, the Wild Cat Cafe. It is housed in a 1930's era log cabin and
open summers only; profits go to the historical society that operate it, for
other restorations. A few years ago (18 actually) when I was recently divorced,
I ran a 6 bedroom boarding house nearby; the cook, baker and 2 of the waitresses
stayed at my place that summer. When their regular caribou supplier, a Native
guy with a general hunting licence, offered them a freshly killed lynx they took
him up on it and made an after hours stew (it didn't go on the menu as a daily
special as they assumed the diners, mostly southern tourists, would be
horrified). And they brought the leftovers back to the house so I could have a
sample. The cook had made the usual stew: cubed meat, floured, browned in oil
and then stewed in stock and water with the usual vegetables. The meat was mild,
not gamy, tender and tasty, rather pork&veal-like.
(BTW lynx are NOT rare let alone endangered in this part of the world. They are
eaten by subsistence hunters fairly regularly although they are far from being a
staple like caribou or fish.)
Categories: Game, Native, Canadian, Jw
Yield: 1 Servings
1 Text file
Lynx weigh up to 40 lbs. and is one of the few tasty carnivores. The
meat is white and very tender and can be quite fatty in the fall and
early winter. Excellent stewed.
From "Northern Cookbook by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada"
Posted by: Jim Weller
MMMMM
I had the opportunity to try lynx once. It was in a stew and tasted just as
described.
There is one surviving historic restaurant in Yellowknife called, very
appropriately, the Wild Cat Cafe. It is housed in a 1930's era log cabin and
open summers only; profits go to the historical society that operate it, for
other restorations. A few years ago (18 actually) when I was recently divorced,
I ran a 6 bedroom boarding house nearby; the cook, baker and 2 of the waitresses
stayed at my place that summer. When their regular caribou supplier, a Native
guy with a general hunting licence, offered them a freshly killed lynx they took
him up on it and made an after hours stew (it didn't go on the menu as a daily
special as they assumed the diners, mostly southern tourists, would be
horrified). And they brought the leftovers back to the house so I could have a
sample. The cook had made the usual stew: cubed meat, floured, browned in oil
and then stewed in stock and water with the usual vegetables. The meat was mild,
not gamy, tender and tasty, rather pork&veal-like.
(BTW lynx are NOT rare let alone endangered in this part of the world. They are
eaten by subsistence hunters fairly regularly although they are far from being a
staple like caribou or fish.)