Recipe: First, kill two cooters.

[grasswire]

Thus begins a recipe in my thick Charleston SC cookbook.

Shudder.

I had to look "cooter" up in a dictionary the first time I saw it. Now I know that it is some kind of turtle.

Kill the cooters, and then "drain" them. Uh...of what? Blood? OMG.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. My mother's old cookbook, Household Searchlight,

had a recipe for making toast that began with "slice bread 1/2 inch thick".

[msanthrope]

2. Yep-turtles need to drain their blood, and it can take a while.

I can tell you how to do it, if you are interested.

[grasswire]

3. er, no thanks

I'm a little squeamish about the idea.

[msanthrope]

4. Turtle soup is quite tasty. nt

[Tab]

5. This book has recipes for Cooter Pie, Baked Possum, and Corn Poe

[pengillian101]

6. Thanks Tab!

Ain't you the helpful one!

(I'm going to check it out though) So thanks.

[hobbit709]

7. At least it wasn't cooties.