They collect them in net onion bags. It is a real pain to clean them, but worth it. You have to put them in cold water and uncurl each one and take off the brown stuff that looks like the stuff on peanuts. Then you have to par boil them a while and throw off the first water. Near the end of the cooking, often cut up potatos are added.
Fiddleheads are delicious, hard to explain what they are like.
I don't know how the muskrat is prepared, but apparantly as any stew. The muskrat tastes like turkey. Click the logo at the top of the window to the left to return to our main index. All rights reserved. Native Way Cookbook is a resource for Grandmothers' Wisdom Keepers , a program of Wisdom Keepers, Inc. .