Roast possum with spiced apples & sweet potatoes

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
Flour
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon Thyme
1 each Possum; dressed, washed, and patted dry (see recipe for \"How to Prepare Possum\"
½ cup Red wine
1¼ cup Water
4 eaches Sweet potatoes; pared and split lengthwise
4 eaches Apples; pared, cored, and halved
1 cup Brown sugar
½ teaspoon Allspice
¾ teaspoon Ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon Nutmeg

Directions

Mix flour, salt, pepper, and thyme and rub inside and outside the animal. Place on rack in roasting pan. Add the wine and water, cover tightly, and roast in a preheated 350 degree oven for about an hour.

Pour off all but a cup of the liquid. Lay the sweet potatoes in the pan, cover, and continue roasting 45 minutes. Now lay in the cored and halved apples amid the sweet potatoes and sprinkle both fruit and vegetables with a mixture of the sugar and the spices.

Continue to roast, with the roaster now uncovered, for another 30 minutes, or until the possum is tender.

_The L.L. Bean Game & Fish Cookbook_ Angus Cameron and Judith Jones Random House, 1983 ISBN 0-394-51191-3

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