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)