You gotta boil the living crap out of squirrels to get them tender...but they’re better than shoe leather.
If I remember correctly, they are best cooked long and hard in rice...primarily as a meat flavoring. Too much muscle.
Some of my best friends are the yard squirrels...I doubt I will eat them unless I am starving.
And there are too many fat humans around to worry about eat muscle bound squirrels.
;-)
Fry squirrel, of any variety. If you can’t, be blessed ya got one, an ain’t eatin’ your horse, hitchin’s, boots or Glory. Mean scrappin’s make good story about a long life, with no gravy, at times.