12 dishes made from beaver

The Canadian Beaver Book, published in 1991, had everything you’d ever want to know about beavers in it, including how to cook them.

1. Beaver ’n batter: thin slices fried with bacon drippings

2. Barbecue beaver: with your favourite sauce

3. Beaver and onions: with onions and bacon

4. Beaver tail soup: cubed, and boiled with spices, onions, celery and carrots

5. Beaver burgers: ground with bacon, onion, eggs and breadcrumbs, fried in patties

6. Beaver liver and pancakes: soaked overnight and fried quickly

7. Beaver and beans: boiled, then sliced and fried with beans

8. Beaver meatloaf: burger recipe with tomato soup, cooked in the oven

9. Boiled beaver: with carrots and onions

10. Beaver in sour cream: fried beaver pieces baked in sour-cream sauce

11. Baked beaver cutlets on beans: brown cutlets baked on top of beans, covered with mustard, ketchup, brown sugar and onions

12. Deep-fried beaver bites: strictly Canadian

Originally published in Maclean’s Book of Lists, Volume 2 (2013)