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Farm Kitchen:  Ever cooked a peacock?  |
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Dusky Beauty
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jen
Tonopah
AZ
USA
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 Posted - Jul 29 2011 : 10:43:56 PM
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I flip flopped over weather this is a animals question, or a kitchen question, but since I'm more interested in the end result of the latter I popped for cooking :)
I'm browsing the hatchery pages (and dreaming) and I found myself wondering if peafowl was tasty and good to eat? Or are they raised just as guardian animals and for plumage? I'm sort of eyeing up some of the straight run bargain mixes and wondering if I can put my extras in the freezer like any other bird?
If you've eaten one, what was it like?
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
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Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2011 : 11:27:20 PM
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I personally wouldn't be able to do it-would be like eating my dog or my cat, they're kind of our pets/family. But, I am interested in knowing.
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rksmith
True Blue Farmgirl
858 Posts
Rachel
Clayton
GA
USA
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Posted - Jul 30 2011 : 07:04:38 AM
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They are a type of pheasant so I imagine it'd be like cooking, storing and eating pheasant. I've not eaten one but wouldn't mind giving it a try sometime.
Rachel
Farmgirl Sister #2753
Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet--Dr. Kioni
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Okie Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Beth
McLoud
Oklahoma
USA
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Posted - Jul 30 2011 : 07:22:43 AM
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I have to admit that I had to chuckle over this. I'm having a hard time picturing eating a peacock. But I looked it up online and found this recipe from the 50's http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/1950s/1951/12/peacock
Evidently, eating Peafowl (somebody online snobbishly insisted that you HAVE to call them Peafowl) was something only the aristrocrats in England did. They were the only ones who could afford to raise them and therefor eat them. But the birds are a member of the pheasant family and were served with the pretty feathers arranged around the platter, although they were said to have a gamey taste. The males are called Peacocks, the females are called Peahens and I'll bet you a peafowl dinner that the babies are called Peachicks!! And when they get mad, they are probably Pea-O'd. :-) So from everything I have seen online, I'd say sharpen the axe and oil the pot! As for me and my house, I find the thought a bit Pea-culiar.
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
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rksmith
True Blue Farmgirl
858 Posts
Rachel
Clayton
GA
USA
858 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2011 : 07:50:12 AM
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ROFLMAO, that's too funny! My DH is one of those people who insist on calling them "peafowl because they are not all male", lol. Yeah I give him a hard time about that!
Rachel
Farmgirl Sister #2753
Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet--Dr. Kioni
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Dusky Beauty
True Blue Farmgirl
1108 Posts
Jen
Tonopah
AZ
USA
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Posted - Jul 30 2011 : 11:10:43 AM
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But you'd be culling the males if you were raising them, and you'd STILL be cooking "pea-cock!"
I don't think it'd be a problem once it was de-feathered.... I find I don't attribute personality of a living bird to a headless carcass. Blame my upbringing on supermarket birds. Once they're going in the pot, they're all the same to me. One could probably make a tidy sum selling them dressed out around christmas though, customers would buy it just to say they had eaten one once!
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
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Okie Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
1674 Posts
Mary Beth
McLoud
Oklahoma
USA
1674 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2011 : 12:06:48 PM
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Well, since I eat baking hens and frying hens, I think I'd want Pea-ing hens too. :-) I'd say that you could sell a bunch! "What are we having for Christmas dinner?" "Peacock!" "You're kidding, right?"
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
1511 Posts
tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - Jul 30 2011 : 12:43:55 PM
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actualy Peacocks are of the peafowl family, like Guiena hens,I would not raise them for meat, too expensive to buy and take to long to mature, and in the market here, I don't think they would sell for meat, they must be penned in huge pens with tops, and they can be quite flighty, loud and big eaters...
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jul 30 2011 : 12:48:55 PM
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never thought of this before..... intersting conversation! But why not?
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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