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Rocky Mountain Oysters

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OK.....as long as we've had cattle we've never saved the nuts and cooked em. But a friend of mine was tellin me how good they really are. We've got about 15 head that are around 6 mo old, still retainin their nuts LOL, and then we have this springs calf crop to cut, somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 bull calves. So I was thinkin this will be the year I give em a try.

Has anyone ever ate them? Has anyone ever cooked them? if so...how'd you go about it? I was told to soak them in water, slice them, use a beer batter and deep fry them. I'm gonna need a good beer batter recipe.
 
They are really good, JL. You can just pan fry them if you want.
If they have any size at all, you will want to slice them before you
fry them. Mostly ours are from calves a month to 6 weeks old, so
we just roll them in eggs and cracker crumbs and pan fry them.

Can't believe a lil country girl like you never have cooked or eaten
Rocky Mountain Oysters!! :P
 
I've always wanted to. But no one ever seems to wanna take the time to save em for me. So I guess this time....it'll be my job to run around with a bowl catchin em as they cut em hahahaha (No pictures of that allowed)
 
Use a 5 gallon bucket w/ a little water in it to hold them right after they're cut. Then you need to clean them down to the tough outer skin. Tough process to explain, but if you need to I can get some pics for a better explanation. Once that's done we usually lay them out on a piece of wax paper on a cookie sheet, making sure they don't bunch up to much and freeze them. Makes it a lot easier to slice them when they're frozen. Then when you get them out of the freezer, run them one at a time under hot water to just thaw out the tough skin so you can take that off of them. Then slice them.

Then, like FH said, fry them just like chicken.

A good & easy way to do it is to just buy fish fry covering. Then you just dip them in egg and milk, run them through the cumbs and put them in the deep fat fryer.

We've always sliced all of ours, as you want to make sure they're cooked through. No mushy centers, it's not a good thing!
 
just take them, slice them length wise through the membrane and squeeze the meaty part out. Roll them in flour and then dip in beer batter, 1 beer one egg and about a cup of flour, deep fat fry them. Or just dip them in egg/milk, roll in cracker crumbs and pan fry. If you have Morel mushrooms, pick a bunch of them and cook them the same way you do the nuts. Make a sauce of ketchup, mustard and horseradish. mmmmmmmmmm, feast for a king. :lol: :lol: :lol: We used to be able to buy a 20 pound box of them from a market in Billings for about a dollar a pound, now all of the resturants serve them as appetizers and they are over 5 bucks a pound.
 
We were in a restaurant somewhere near Thermopolis Wy...Some of you will know the place...it's a Holiday Inn with all dead critters on the wall that the owner has killed!

Anyhoo...we had a French-Canadian/ Quebec gal with us. She'd never been West before, let alone eaten anything like that.

So my buddy from Caspar orders a big ol' steaming plate of ' oysters'....." sacre bleu"...she must have one. By this time the whole place is watchin us.

The restaurant is FULL of people. Some kind of event, wedding or something as everyone is dressed kinda nice.

She takes one...we all watch....she chomps on it....THEN we tell her it's not really an oyster-oyster.... she spits it out making quiet a show of it all and claims loudly... " ewwww,,,,,tastes like semen".

All the old ladies in the place nearly fainted.... the men folk went pale.......we all were laffin so hard we were crying.
 
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Cook em the cowboy way...lol enuff said...
 
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Mountain+Oysters&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/RockyMtnOyster.htm

We Killed Bulls and freeze them until we had several 100 then cleaned and sliced for a big feed at a local bar.
 
kolanuraven said:
We were in a restaurant somewhere near Thermopolis Wy...Some of you will know the place...it's a Holiday Inn with all dead critters on the wall that the owner has killed!

Anyhoo...we had a French-Canadian/ Quebec gal with us. She'd never been West before, let alone eaten anything like that.

So my buddy from Caspar orders a big ol' steaming plate of ' oysters'....." sacre bleu"...she must have one. By this time the whole place is watchin us.

The restaurant is FULL of people. Some kind of event, wedding or something as everyone is dressed kinda nice.

She takes one...we all watch....she chomps on it....THEN we tell her it's not really an oyster-oyster.... she spits it out making quiet a show of it all and claims loudly... " ewwww,,,,,tastes like semen".

All the old ladies in the place nearly fainted.... the men folk went pale.......we all were laffin so hard we were crying.
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Stay there often.... like the pictures of them cleaning an elephant.
 
My son will eat them cooked like in Jassy's picture that however is way to fresh for me!

We soak the calf fries in cold water overnight just due to the fact of the number of them and having company. Then we'll slit the membrane and squeeze the meat out. (Some we know only take off the first membrane but we slit until the mushy meat inside. To me the other way is gross.) My mom then dips them in eggs and cracker crumbs and fries them.

We used to live on a place where then didn't cut bull calves until fall. They would be a lot larger and if I recall right the lady dipped them in egg and crackers and put them in the fry daddy.
 
Faster horses said:
From years of cleaning them, I've found scissors work much better than knives. This is for the small ones, of course. I've not had much experience cleaning the large ones.
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We just squeeze them so all the pressure is pushing to one side and slit with a knife and the inside just pops out.
 
jodywy said:
kolanuraven said:
We were in a restaurant somewhere near Thermopolis Wy...Some of you will know the place...it's a Holiday Inn with all dead critters on the wall that the owner has killed!

Anyhoo...we had a French-Canadian/ Quebec gal with us. She'd never been West before, let alone eaten anything like that.

So my buddy from Caspar orders a big ol' steaming plate of ' oysters'....." sacre bleu"...she must have one. By this time the whole place is watchin us.

The restaurant is FULL of people. Some kind of event, wedding or something as everyone is dressed kinda nice.

She takes one...we all watch....she chomps on it....THEN we tell her it's not really an oyster-oyster.... she spits it out making quiet a show of it all and claims loudly... " ewwww,,,,,tastes like semen".

All the old ladies in the place nearly fainted.... the men folk went pale.......we all were laffin so hard we were crying.
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Stay there often.... like the pictures of them cleaning an elephant.
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Help me out.....what's the name of that place???
 
When we lived in Idaho our nieghbors used sheep dip as disinfectant...the oysters tasted like sheep dip...not good :?
 
kolanuraven said:
jodywy said:
kolanuraven said:
We were in a restaurant somewhere near Thermopolis Wy...Some of you will know the place...it's a Holiday Inn with all dead critters on the wall that the owner has killed!

Anyhoo...we had a French-Canadian/ Quebec gal with us. She'd never been West before, let alone eaten anything like that.

So my buddy from Caspar orders a big ol' steaming plate of ' oysters'....." sacre bleu"...she must have one. By this time the whole place is watchin us.

The restaurant is FULL of people. Some kind of event, wedding or something as everyone is dressed kinda nice.

She takes one...we all watch....she chomps on it....THEN we tell her it's not really an oyster-oyster.... she spits it out making quiet a show of it all and claims loudly... " ewwww,,,,,tastes like semen".

All the old ladies in the place nearly fainted.... the men folk went pale.......we all were laffin so hard we were crying.
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Stay there often.... like the pictures of them cleaning an elephant.
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Help me out.....what's the name of that place???
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Safari Club is the bar and restaurant
 
kolanuraven I just about hurt myself reading that. That is too funny. Did you ever see that Cowboy U on CMT when they were in Hawaii? The best part was when they fed them to those couples and that one woman just didn't get what it was they were eating. I think they had to explain it to her a few times.

I like mine deep fried in beer batter with a cajun seasoning in it. Like the ones they sell at the state fair in Billings.
 
I Luv Herfrds said:
kolanuraven I just about hurt myself reading that. That is too funny. Did you ever see that Cowboy U on CMT when they were in Hawaii? The best part was when they fed them to those couples and that one woman just didn't get what it was they were eating. I think they had to explain it to her a few times.

I like mine deep fried in beer batter with a cajun seasoning in it. Like the ones they sell at the state fair in Billings.
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When she comes to visit me....here in GA....we're gonna try her on some " chitlin's" and what happens. :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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