Baked Stuffed Muskrat With Carrots And Onions - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 muskrat, dressed
salt and pepper
3 potatoes
2 Tbsp. margarine
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. summer savory
1 c. chopped celery
3 carrots, halved
3 onions
bacon slices

Preparation

Soak the muskrat overnight in salted water.
Cook the potatoes and mash them with margarine.
Mix in salt, pepper, savory, garlic powder and chopped celery.
Stuff the muskrat with this mixture and sew it up.
Salt and pepper the muskrat.
Place on a rack in a roasting pan.
Place carrots and onions around the muskrat, bacon strips across the back and bake at 400\u00b0 for 10 minutes.
Pour 2 cups hot water over the muskrat and cook for about 1 hour.