Southern Fried Rattle Snake
This recipe is from the Sweetwater, TX chamber of Commerce.
Texas Rattlesnake
1. Find and capture a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake.
2. Kill, skin, and remove entrails.
3. Cut into edible portions.
4. Make a batter of flour, cracker meal, salt, pepper, and garlic.
5. Roll your snake portions in the batter.
6. Fry in deep fat, heated to a temperature that will ignite a floating wooden match.
7. Fry until meat is a golden brown.
8. Eat it!!
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Texas Rattlesnake<<<
Yes, my friend Mary, always had one or two in the freezer, to serve visitors....not to me, no no no.
But your chickens will eat ones body and if you boil all the meat off the bones, you have a natural tri-bead, the joints even have a hole for using in bead making.
I made and sold necklaces with them, even wore one with a few on it.
Mary did the cooking and gave me cleaned beads/bones.
I was willing to kill them.
When I had my place in the mountains, I killed them almost daily, did you know that the buzzards and wild life will not eat them for 24 hours?
I would cut the head off, and bury it, toss the body in the wash and it would lay there for 24 hours, then the animals and buzzards took it for food.
One night when I came home late, there was a rattlesnake at the gate, so he got shot and I put a large rock over his head, so nothing would accidentally touch the fangs.
The next morning when I went out to cut the head off, LOL, every wild burro for miles around had stopped during the night and left a manure deposit on the snake and rock.