Hi Dave, the East Asians have a dish called the Beggar's Chicken that is very similar to your dish here. First, the chicken is gutted and cleaned in the inside, but you leave the skin and the feathers intact. Second, you wrap the whole thing in clay, so the end product looks like an oversized football made of mud. Third, you put the mud football inside a burning fire like you did in the video. After it's done, the mud football becomes a hardened shell. Once you break the shell open, the feathers and some of the skin will be torn away as well, leaving you with a very moist, fully cooked chicken. Apparently it's called the Beggar's Chicken because the ancient Chinese beggar gangs could steal a chicken and make the dish without any other utensils. The modern version, which is served in many restaurants, are still made in a similar way, but the chicken is defeathered and wrapped by a layer of tin foil or baking paper before they wrap it with mud. It's much cleaner, but I always feel that it took away the original story.
Dave, you are absolutely the best there is at instructional videos. I really miss seeing you on TV, man, but the wealth of things you provide here is astounding! Thanks for doing this!
That's a woodsman's meal right there my friend. I've got a little ankle biter mutt that's so fast & stout, she chases down cottontails all the time. She gnaws the head open, eats the brain, then always brings me the untouched body with all the meat. Haven't found a diseased one yet so I've been eating rabbit all winter and still have a few in the freezer. I'll for sure & certain be cooking some rabbit using this awesome culinary method. Thank you Chef Canterbury.
Thank you Dave, for sharing your knowledge all these years. I've been watching and adding to my tool box sense the beginning. Keep on keeping on Brother.
We use a similar method in our WV camping trips... we get the fire good and going, dig a hole, do a layer of hot coals from the fire, then some dirt, then the food in aluminum foil, then more dirt, then more coals.... then leveled with dirt. Let it cook for a while, dig it out and enjoy. We've done venison tenderloin, ribs, roasts, pork chops.... I tell you, it's one of the best tasting meat I have ever eaten, hands-down. After watching this video, now I'm hungry again!!!
Roots, meat in aluminum foil in a coal pit is my favorite way to cook in the wood.also ,a can of corn beef hash with sweet potatoes in aluminum foil, in a coal pit is what I eat most mornings.yum
I love these camp recipes videos. Rabbits are an easy target. There's even a local family owned fish market where I am that also offers game. Pheasant, duck, rabbit an that kind of thing with the fur an feathers still on. Good stew material..
I genuinely want to become his Padawan. I'd obey his every order with "Yes, my Master.", and learn from everything he told me to do. I've practised some of the things in his videos - for example, I've managed to cook rice with a fire I've started in the forest in the middle of winter when it was covered in snow. I have so much sincere respect for Dave's knowledge and experience of self-reliance.
Thanks for the great video, Dave! It looked absolutely delicious. It looked easy enough for even me to accomplish (Old Bay is in my haversack, too). Sorry to hear that Iris' Dad isn't feeling well. Prayers are going up and positive vibes are heading to him. By the way, I really appreciate when you mention your family on camera. It underscores the importance that you place on family and kind of makes us feel part of it in a way. Anyway, thanks for sharing with us the things you value most. ROCK ON, Brother!!! :)
I always enjoy watching Dave's videos for lots of reasons, but one of the biggest is that he lives in the same general area as I, so the plants, trees and animals he speaks of are the things that are around me as well.
Dave i know this is kinda hard to do in the field, but here in georgia, its fine eating with rabbit wrapped in bacon, some wild onions, potatoes, spices, tomatoes... really good... specially if you are near a creek, get some crawdads... thats a fine meal indeed.
I'm kinda glad I just ate breakfast and am full. Otherwise, I'd be drooling while watching you enjoy that meal. The best part of this video was seeing how much you loved that food.
This was a great video!! Simple, with wild game and wild edibles!! Feel free to post more like this!! I love em and gives me ideas for my next time out!! Thank you.
Sweet old bay, I love old bay seasoning. I love in Maryland and old bay is literally everywhere. This is almost nowhere you wont find old bay except for maybe in the cities. But who likes cities anyway.
Also the pine resins become toxic and tar-like when burned. Pine is one of the biggest creators of Creosote. It is good for preserving railroad ties...and that's not good eats
Reminds me of something I did about 40 years ago I had fresh caught catfish on the creek Bank wrapped it in Wild Grape Leaves and set it in the fire it was pretty good I brought some store-bought crackers to have with it
Good job! I bet that would be good with a few pats of butter or a strip of bacon to flavor the spuds as rabbit is pretty lean. I always carry some foil folded up in my kit. You never know when it might come in handy.
Sitting here cooking store bought bacon and i know in my heart id rather be out in the woods catching prepping and eating some meat of the earth. Then i started thinking, im glad dave has a youtube channel, and i wonder if cody has a youtube channel?
...WOW...oh man... you kiddin' me... mmmmMmmm... don't get no beddr n' this... ;) great video and good baking lesson.. looked delicious. take care and thanks again. Don P.
have you ever tried a seasoning called spike? its a great seasoning for bush cooking too i use it for everything. its a mix of like 70 herbs and spices its great stuff and good for you too.
pretty close to what my family and me are doing every year, the only difference is we bury the meat in coal without lighting a fire on top and we don't use aluminium-foil for the meat-packages, but ordinary paper and a thick layer of newspaper around it ;)
I'm really surprised I've never seen this cooking method before. It's way less work-intensive than digging a pit to roast in, and way less resource and fuel-intensive than a traditional brick or clay oven. Really ingenious. Anyone know where this method comes from?
Looks great.Going to have and try that.If you ever want to hunt with some good hounds with your muzzle loaders let me know.I am in the Cincinnati area but we will travel.Great vid.
Wasn't the stump he was cutting the sweet potatoes on, the same stump he used to make his rub cloth on in the last video? Is gunpowder safe to eat? Just curious. I'm sure it's just nitrates and cellulose, but i don't really know :-)
All them greens are good.. Just wanting so much for some rosemary and or thyme. and olive oil. good stuff man. yumma. (maybe some garlic tops - ahh! give me my wusthof!)
I'm thinking it is probably Morel season around your parts. Oh man! Fry some of them up or make some mushroom gravy to go with the rabbit. That would put an all ready excellent meal over the top.
Why can't I cook with pine? Just asking.....I have a whole pine forest behind me. But just to confirm, is it ok if the food is in tin foil? Cool video, thank you.
I'm seeing a lot of questions asking about cooking over pine. I am a bit behind on these vids so it may have already been covered. If you are cooking in a pot over pine, that is probably ok. But if you are cooking meat directly over wood...like steaks on a campfire, or especially when slow smoking meats..pine or any other very resinous wood is a bad idea. It's as simple as this...burn some pine sap..see that black smoke? Do you want that in your food? Burned pine sap makes creosote..good for sealing railroad ties and ancient ship hulls...not good for taste, also cancer causing...like cigarettes. And...technically what Dave has done in this vid is "Braising", not "Baking". Cooking it in the foil traps the steam and juices and it is the best way to get tender meat.
Hi Dave, the East Asians have a dish called the Beggar's Chicken that is very similar to your dish here. First, the chicken is gutted and cleaned in the inside, but you leave the skin and the feathers intact. Second, you wrap the whole thing in clay, so the end product looks like an oversized football made of mud. Third, you put the mud football inside a burning fire like you did in the video. After it's done, the mud football becomes a hardened shell. Once you break the shell open, the feathers and some of the skin will be torn away as well, leaving you with a very moist, fully cooked chicken. Apparently it's called the Beggar's Chicken because the ancient Chinese beggar gangs could steal a chicken and make the dish without any other utensils.
The modern version, which is served in many restaurants, are still made in a similar way, but the chicken is defeathered and wrapped by a layer of tin foil or baking paper before they wrap it with mud. It's much cleaner, but I always feel that it took away the original story.
Dave, you are absolutely the best there is at instructional videos. I really miss seeing you on TV, man, but the wealth of things you provide here is astounding! Thanks for doing this!
That's a woodsman's meal right there my friend. I've got a little ankle biter mutt that's so fast & stout, she chases down cottontails all the time. She gnaws the head open, eats the brain, then always brings me the untouched body with all the meat. Haven't found a diseased one yet so I've been eating rabbit all winter and still have a few in the freezer. I'll for sure & certain be cooking some rabbit using this awesome culinary method. Thank you Chef Canterbury.
This, I enjoyed! Thank you, Dave. Hope your pa-in-law is feeling better.
Where are your cookin shows?
Still waiting on the pigeon pie video!
Yeah boy! Thx Dave, love the cooking episodes.
Thank you Dave, for sharing your knowledge all these years. I've been watching and adding to my tool box sense the beginning. Keep on keeping on Brother.
We use a similar method in our WV camping trips... we get the fire good and going, dig a hole, do a layer of hot coals from the fire, then some dirt, then the food in aluminum foil, then more dirt, then more coals.... then leveled with dirt. Let it cook for a while, dig it out and enjoy. We've done venison tenderloin, ribs, roasts, pork chops.... I tell you, it's one of the best tasting meat I have ever eaten, hands-down.
After watching this video, now I'm hungry again!!!
I get so hyped for cooking videos thank you Dave.
This was a great video Dave. You really make it seem like we are out there with you. Thank you for sharing
Roots, meat in aluminum foil in a coal pit is my favorite way to cook in the wood.also ,a can of corn beef hash with sweet potatoes in aluminum foil, in a coal pit is what I eat most mornings.yum
I love these camp recipes videos. Rabbits are an easy target. There's even a local family owned fish market where I am that also offers game. Pheasant, duck, rabbit an that kind of thing with the fur an feathers still on. Good stew material..
I genuinely want to become his Padawan. I'd obey his every order with "Yes, my Master.", and learn from everything he told me to do.
I've practised some of the things in his videos - for example, I've managed to cook rice with a fire I've started in the forest in the middle of winter when it was covered in snow. I have so much sincere respect for Dave's knowledge and experience of self-reliance.
Also - keep the bones. They make awesome materials to shave into arrowheads. :p
Thanks for the great video, Dave! It looked absolutely delicious. It looked easy enough for even me to accomplish (Old Bay is in my haversack, too).
Sorry to hear that Iris' Dad isn't feeling well. Prayers are going up and positive vibes are heading to him.
By the way, I really appreciate when you mention your family on camera. It underscores the importance that you place on family and kind of makes us feel part of it in a way. Anyway, thanks for sharing with us the things you value most.
ROCK ON, Brother!!! :)
miss you on dual survival... glad to see you continuing this survival education for us. Thank you Dave. awesome vids too.
Thank you for putting this video out again. I enjoyed it.
Thanks Dave. Excellent work.
Love the old bay I use it on everything
Thanks for another great video Dave... Also wishing for father-in-law all the best. God Bless..
I should have never watched that at work an hour before lunch now I am starving, lol.
Jason
I always enjoy watching Dave's videos for lots of reasons, but one of the biggest is that he lives in the same general area as I, so the plants, trees and animals he speaks of are the things that are around me as well.
Great lookin' camp meal for sure ! Good job ! THANKS ...Alan 🇨🇱
Damn son, have some rabbit with your Old Bay LOL
Thank you Brother, Oh how I love you.God bless you and yours.Some day soon to your school.
Dave i know this is kinda hard to do in the field, but here in georgia, its fine eating with rabbit wrapped in bacon, some wild onions, potatoes, spices, tomatoes... really good... specially if you are near a creek, get some crawdads... thats a fine meal indeed.
I'm kinda glad I just ate breakfast and am full. Otherwise, I'd be drooling while watching you enjoy that meal. The best part of this video was seeing how much you loved that food.
...with a nice cold beer! Looked DELICIOUS!
All of the wild Onion is eatable and cooks up nicely. The Tops, the Bulb and the roots. and they grow just about every where.
My mouth was watering the whole time you were eating. Can't wait to get out and try this recipe. Great video as usual. Thanks Dave.
This was a great video!! Simple, with wild game and wild edibles!! Feel free to post more like this!! I love em and gives me ideas for my next time out!!
Thank you.
Sweet old bay, I love old bay seasoning. I love in Maryland and old bay is literally everywhere. This is almost nowhere you wont find old bay except for maybe in the cities. But who likes cities anyway.
i wish all cookin shows were like this lol great vid bud, keep up the good work
Dave I miss you in Duel Survival man...you where awesome....But I love this channel!
That looks delicious! I can't wait to try that.
Thanks for the video! God bless, brother!
Nothing better than good food in the great outdoors!
Hope your father-in-law feels better.
thanks for showing on rabbit and squirrel how to cook it and dressing festive for it I spot to switch it up
Great video Dave. Thanks for sharing.
I'm curious what's the reason why pine shouldn't be used for cooking? I never heard that before.
Makes the meat taste like pine sol
Thanks, I'll have to remember that.
Also the pine resins become toxic and tar-like when burned. Pine is one of the biggest creators of Creosote. It is good for preserving railroad ties...and that's not good eats
now that's a fine meal!!! one thing I carry in all of my bags is a decent container of SALT and PEPPER!!
When you opened that tin foil... That was a moment for the books right there haha
Ya really gotta love this. Real deal cookin supreme !! Thanks
I love this video. I use this method when i find fresh water muscles and clams.
Man, I'm hungry now. Thanks Dave!
I learned a lot from this video. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome. I would pay good money to see martha stewarts reaction to your "cutting board" Dave.
Thx for the vid!
Reminds me of something I did about 40 years ago I had fresh caught catfish on the creek Bank wrapped it in Wild Grape Leaves and set it in the fire it was pretty good I brought some store-bought crackers to have with it
man you have to love Dave's stump side lessons best one's he has done was right there
Helluva chef Dave. That rabbit looks like fine eatin!
Good job! I bet that would be good with a few pats of butter or a strip of bacon to flavor the spuds as rabbit is pretty lean. I always carry some foil folded up in my kit. You never know when it might come in handy.
yeah ever since dual survival I've studied , and to say , knowledge on herbs and plants is pretty wild
I literally just had to go eat cause of this video, great work as always Mr C
Sitting here cooking store bought bacon and i know in my heart id rather be out in the woods catching prepping and eating some meat of the earth. Then i started thinking, im glad dave has a youtube channel, and i wonder if cody has a youtube channel?
Nice! I have never eaten rabbit. Would like to try it.
...WOW...oh man... you kiddin' me... mmmmMmmm... don't get no beddr n' this... ;) great video and good baking lesson.. looked delicious. take care and thanks again. Don P.
excellent choice with the old bay dmmmm ya that sounds like a good meal..
Excellent. Thanks, Dave.
Tradron
I could almost taste it!! Good stuff!!
I love camp cooking videos
Looked nice and tender. I had to chuckle about the how to tell it's done bit, though.
That looks really tasty! I might try something similar using a stack of dock leaves here in the UK instead of the foil and see how it turns out. :-)
Great video, mouth watering for sure ;)-
Is there a way that this could be done without aluminum foil?
Nice I'm interested in knowing how to fix / process a goose I have some chickens that will be ready for butcher also.
have you ever tried a seasoning called spike? its a great seasoning for bush cooking too i use it for everything. its a mix of like 70 herbs and spices its great stuff and good for you too.
pretty close to what my family and me are doing every year, the only difference is we bury the meat in coal without lighting a fire on top and we don't use aluminium-foil for the meat-packages, but ordinary paper and a thick layer of newspaper around it ;)
do you not have any burdock leaves or some other kind of leaves big enough in which to wrap and bake the rabbit? just wondering......
Not this early in the season
I'm really surprised I've never seen this cooking method before. It's way less work-intensive than digging a pit to roast in, and way less resource and fuel-intensive than a traditional brick or clay oven.
Really ingenious. Anyone know where this method comes from?
Enjoyed your video. Nice cookin
I would like to know how, in a survival situation, you would go about saving the leftover rabbit an keep it from spoiling should you need to.
Looked good Dave.. I think you need a Chefs Hat now. >_o
Thanks for the video
Good job. That looked incredibly tasty!
Making me hungry Dave! good job as always!!
Looks great.Going to have and try that.If you ever want to hunt with some good hounds with your muzzle loaders let me know.I am in the Cincinnati area but we will travel.Great vid.
Wasn't the stump he was cutting the sweet potatoes on, the same stump he used to make his rub cloth on in the last video? Is gunpowder safe to eat? Just curious. I'm sure it's just nitrates and cellulose, but i don't really know :-)
great tip dave thanks.
your the man dave!
dave should do a cooking show called a little dirt dont hurt...lol
Looks good Dave
looked real tasty Dave. had rabbit over the fire before but not this way.got to try it
Making me hungry, Dave!
first view of a dave canterbury video :O life complete
I love rabbit. Here's a tip, chopsticks. Easy to make or carry. A little tricky to use, for me at least.
We have our youth group cook in tin foil around the campfire and call it hobo stew. Add a little cream of mushroom soup. Oooweee!
All them greens are good.. Just wanting so much for some rosemary and or thyme. and olive oil. good stuff man. yumma. (maybe some garlic tops - ahh! give me my wusthof!)
you make hungery Dave good job
Great dish. Wish I could cook like that.
Mann making me hungry just watching!! Good cooking Dave!
Why don't you use pine? because of the sap? I remember using pine to boil water once and my canteen cup was coated in the sap afterwards.
I'm thinking it is probably Morel season around your parts. Oh man! Fry some of them up or make some mushroom gravy to go with the rabbit. That would put an all ready excellent meal over the top.
Love your videos, thanks
Also, why should we not cook over pine? I assume you mean over an open flame?
Nice video sir, I would love to see more open fire cooking, it's a difficult topic due to cooking meet at the right temps, keep up the great work!!
Why can't I cook with pine? Just asking.....I have a whole pine forest behind me. But just to confirm, is it ok if the food is in tin foil? Cool video, thank you.
Great video Dave , I love what you are doing on your channel. From one old grunt to another great job...
Dumb Question: Why keep the pine from tucking your food?
From one Ohio boy to another , boy I wish I was sharing that with you.
A real top chef outdoors man style
I'm seeing a lot of questions asking about cooking over pine. I am a bit behind on these vids so it may have already been covered. If you are cooking in a pot over pine, that is probably ok. But if you are cooking meat directly over wood...like steaks on a campfire, or especially when slow smoking meats..pine or any other very resinous wood is a bad idea. It's as simple as this...burn some pine sap..see that black smoke? Do you want that in your food? Burned pine sap makes creosote..good for sealing railroad ties and ancient ship hulls...not good for taste, also cancer causing...like cigarettes. And...technically what Dave has done in this vid is "Braising", not "Baking". Cooking it in the foil traps the steam and juices and it is the best way to get tender meat.
i'm curious-u didn't mention any of the toxic wild plants that look like onion...isn't death camas one?
mouth is watering just watching this make me want to to up on my hill and get me a rabbit
I bet that would be good with sliced apples. Yum!