OSers please help with preparing pheasant!!

kinkyjinks

Gothicfairy wrote: »

I am wondering though if I would be best hanging it for a couple of days before dealing with it, it was killed Tuesday and I bought it yesterday but reading some of the sites out there is does suggest that it could be hung for up to 3 weeks in this weather.

I would hang it for at least a week, probably 2. It will be fine if you don't though, just not quite as gamey.

LJM

never done a pheasent but i used to pluck chickens with my nan

Penelope_Penguin

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread; Pink-winged has found some good links

Gothicfairy

I thought I would add this link : http://www.shootingtimes.co.uk/homefeature/166414/How_to_skin_a_pheasant__video.html

I followed it yesterday on my brace and it worked perfectly.

twiglet98

YouTube has some useful ideas for skinning - I've tried many of them with varying degrees of success! They do always end up skinned, but not always whole, or in roasting-size portions, and if that's the case I make a pie (fry off some smoked bacon, sweat onions in the fat, dip the pheasant pieces in seasoned flour and brown quickly, add mushrooms, stock - there's usually some in the freezer from another pheasant, another day - pop in dish, top with puff pastry, yum).

Actually I prefer pheasant pie to any other pheasant dish!