Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

Flour 4 ea Sweet potatoes; pared and
Salt and freshly ground -split lengthwise
-black pepper 4 ea Apples; pared, cored, and
1 ts Thyme -halved
1 ea Possum; dressed, washed, and 1 c Brown sugar
-patted dry (see recipe for 1/2 ts Allspice
-"How to Prepare Possum" 3/4 ts Ground cinnamon
1/2 c Red wine 1/2 ts Nutmeg
1 1/4 c Water

Mix flour, salt, pepper, and thyme and rub inside and outside the
animal. Place on rack in roasting pan. Add the wine and water, cover
tightly, and roast in a preheated 350 degree oven for about an hour.
Pour off all but a cup of the liquid. Lay the sweet potatoes in
the pan, cover, and continue roasting 45 minutes. Now lay in the
cored and halved apples amid the sweet potatoes and sprinkle both
fruit and vegetables with a mixture of the sugar and the spices.
Continue to roast, with the roaster now uncovered, for another 30
minutes, or until the possum is tender.

_The L.L. Bean Game Fish Cookbook_ Angus Cameron and Judith Jones
Random House, 1983 ISBN 0-394-51191-3 Typos by Jeff Pruett
Submitted By JEFF PRUETT On 05-11-95

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