Remember I am really old. My father used to bring squirrels home and I don't know where he found them to shoot them - I don't remember shooting squirrels around our house anywhere.
He fried them and I surely ate them but don't remember how they tasted. Pretty sure we would have had gravy with them. But, the thing that I had real trouble with, was when he cracked the skull and ate the brains. When I heard that skull crack, I did not look as he ate.
He also went frog hunting and remember eating frog legs. Both my parents grew up on farms in Arkansas. They came to Texas to work in the east Texas oil field, and I was born in Texas. He made good money but we still ate squirrels and frog legs.
I suppose one guts the squirrel and peels off the skin. I would think dip in milk, then flour, and fry.
Like you I was very young, and I can’t remember a lot. I know Rabbit tasted better, and had more meat. I never developed a taste for frog legs either, though many people seem to love them.
If any brains were eaten, I wasn’t around when it happened. I don’t remember what the rest were dipped in, but they were floured and fried.