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Dog as a food source

When times get bad, feral dogs will be valued most as a potential food source. Open your own Korean restaurant!

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Cuisine of Dog Meat

1) Bosintang (soup)

Dog Soup is called, Gaejang, Gajangkuk, or Gujang, Gujangaeng, Guyoukgeng. It has been called Bosintang from the later part of 1940, but during the period of the 1988 Olympic games, it was banned to use the name of Bosintang, so its name was replaced by Youngyangtang, Sacheoltang, Mungmungtang. But nowadays, the name of Bosintang is widely used instead of Youngyangtang. Bosintang is made by boiling dog meat with thin soy paste, tearing it into pieces, putting ingredients such as green onion, leek, stalk of taro, brake into broth, and boiling it again to make Bosintang. In Kyungsang province, to get rid of the smell, perilla purple are put in the soup. Perilla are also used for ridding the smell. Taste of perilla is similar to that of dog, and it becomes a good match to dog meat. Side dishes of dog meat are Kimchi, fresh peppers, and cucumbers. Adding a glass of Soju(liquor) enhances the taste.

The standard amount of ingredients for one portion.

Ingredients

100g of boiled dog meat
500g of gravy
20g of green onion
10g of a leek
10g of perilla leaves
100g of taro stalk soaked in water.

Sauce

8g of salt
2g of mashed garlic
3g of perilla
2g of red pepper
2g of mashed ginger
a little amount of pepper.

Cooking instruction

After boiling the meat with gravy and stalk of taro for some time, boil again after putting vegetables and other ingredients into it. Before eating, sprinkle pepper on it and put into an earthen bowl. The stalk of taro is to be kept in cold water one or two days to get rid of its smell and taste.

Bosintang

2. Jeongol (boiled dog meat mixed with spices and vegetables)

Eat while boiling to boil down some of the soup. Add lots of dog meat and ingredients. Vegetables such as dropwort, perilla leaves, green onion and other ingredients such as garlic, pepper, and red pepper are put in. It can be served for a side dish with Soju (liquor) or for eating boiled rice. After eating, boiled rice can be mixed with the remaining soup.

The standard amount of ingredients for one portion.

Ingredients

200g of boiled dog meat
150g of gravy
50g of green onion
50g of leek
40g of dropwort
20g of perilla

Sauce

3g of salt
5g of perilla
10g of mashed garlic
2g of red pepper
a little amount of pepper.

Cooking Instructions

Eat while boiling the soup, dog meat, gravy, vegetables and other ingredients in a pan. If it is excessively boiled, the color of vegetables can be changed, deteriorating the taste of the soup. So once it is boiled, cooking over a weak fire, begin eating.

Jeongol

3. Suyuk(a boiled dog meat)

Suyuk is eaten with specific ingredients or salt. Add heat to the meat by boiling water or steam for prevention from cooling down. Ingredients are to be made of the mixture of soy bean paste with perilla, and one can eat the dog meat with the addition of salt or these ingredients and wrapping it with perilla and lettuce. Eating it with mildly-boiled leek is common. When eating Suyuk, Soju(liquor) is usually accompanied by for its taste.

The standard amount of ingredients for one portion.

Ingredients

200g of boiled dog meat
50g of gravy
1g of salt
1g of garlic
a little amount of pepper, leek, perilla leaves

Sauce

It can be enjoyed at one’s taste with the addition of mixture of soy bean paste, sesame oil, perilla oil, or with salt on it.

Cooking instructions

Put dog meat and gravy and ingredients into pan, and steam it with a weak fire, eat with sauce. One can eat with boiled-leek. Perilla powder, perilla oil, mustard, vinegar are to be added to the sauce.

Suyuk

4. Duruchigi (mixture with seasonings)

It is a food made by mixing dog meat with seasonings and vegetables, and boiling and roasting them. When eating Duruchigi, Soju(liquor) is usually accompanied for its taste.

The standard amount of ingredients for one portion.

Ingredients

200g of boiled dog meat
20ml of gravy
50g of green onion
50g of leek
40g of dropwort
20g of perilla leave
a little pepper
5g of perilla oil
1g of salt
2g of mashed garlic
2g of mashed ginger
2g of red pepper

Cooking instructions

Put gravy and vegetables into heated pan and roast them, and after vegetables become softened, put dog meat and ingredients into the pan and mix them. If it is not salty enough, dip in the sauce.

Duruchigi

5. Dogmeat Food developed by Professor Ann

Digested dogmeat : Dogmeat hydrolyzed by protease
Dogmeat powder : Digested dog meat powder
Dogmeat extract : Water extract of digested dogmeat and medical ingredient
Dogmeat wine : Wine of wax gourd and digested dogmeat fermented by yeast
Dogmeat vinegar : Vinegar of wax gourd and digested dogmeat fermented by Acetobacter
Dogmeat red pepper paste : Red pepper paste fermented with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat soy bean paste : Soy bean paste fermented with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat soy sauce : Soy sauce fermented with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat-red pepper paste pickle : Dogmeat pickled in red pepper paste
Dogmeat Kimchi : Kimchi fermented with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dog intestine sausage : Dog intestine into which blood of dog, vegetable and dogmeat are stuffed
Dogmeat can : Canned dogmeat
Dogmeat noodle : Noodle with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat Chinese noodles : Chinese noodle with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat puree : Puree with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat soup : Soup with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat beverage : Beverage of the dilution of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat mayonnaise : Mayonnaise from vinegar, digested dogmeat, oil and egg
Dog oil mayonnaise : Mayonnaise from vinegar, dog oil and egg
Dogmeat ketchup : Ketchup from the mixture of digested dogmeat, tomato puree
Dogmeat bread : Bread with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat cooky : Cooky with the addition of digested dogmeat
Dogmeat hamburger : Hamburger pad made of dogmeat
Dogmeat cutlet : Cutlet made of dogmeat
Dogmeat ham : Ham made of dogmeat
Dogmeat sausage : Sausage made of dogmeat
Dogmeat cosmetics : Cream, essence and emulsion made from dog oil

Bee Update

In my last post I was splitting the hive to stop the bees swarming and create a backup hive. I’ve been monitoring the situation and it appears that the bees have not liked the lack of a queen and have since been trying to grow their own by creating quite a few more queen cells.

This is good because it allows a backup for the queen cell I have that is due to hatch any day now and bad in that the queens will fight and there is the potential that my new queen could be damaged. I now have the task of removing all but two of the queen cells, my original one and a good looking new one as backup.

The removed queen cells won’t all be wasted. I have decided to try and breed two queens for replacement purposes or as a second backup to my split hive. You never know.

To raise queens you need to create a mini hive and I purchased two mating hives for this very purpose. You simply put some foundation into the mini frames, a queen cell, some food and a cup full of bees. Seal it up for 48 hours and move it indoors, spraying the entrance occasionally with water to keep them alive. After 48 hours place outside and open the entrance so they can forage for food.

Now all I have to do is wait two weeks and then see how things are going. If I see eggs all is OK and I have some fertile queens. If it is successful I’ll either create another hive or give them away to someone who has lost a queen and could lose their hive.

So I now have four hives although three are queenless and they won’t survive without one. I’m finding the whole thing very interesting.

Fingers crossed.

Cultivating Allies

I know some preppers are not in the least bit interested in becoming part of a group or having a few people they can rely on in a tough situation. A thread started by Geordie_Rob on the forum had me thinking.

Like Geordie_Rob I have an allotment and at least 50% of the plot holders are retired and most of those have had a plot on this site since it opened 40 years ago. These chaps have forgotten more about growing than I can ever hope to know. Their wives are preservers extraordinaire who I’ve no doubt could pickle and jam anything.

The oracle of the plots knows everything there is to know about the history of the field, what grows well and what doesn’t. What direction the wind blows when to plant out and he’s intimately acquainted with the soil structure and fertility. I have made a point of cultivating a relationship with these old boys not only to improve my chances of a successful crop, but to have a group of people who I know and who would band together in a crisis.

It’s not just their gardening knowledge that is useful either, some of these guys are ex forces and there’s one who even pushing 80, I would put my money on in an unfair fight. Most have lived in the area all their lives and know where the trouble spots in the town are, they also know where the little gems of stuff are that could make life a bit easier. They know where the best fishing spots are, where the outfalls for various factories and sewage plants are on which rivers. The best blackberrying spots, the Italian chap on the next ride is an avid mushroom hunter. The oracle is a whizz mechanic, and can build almost anything, there’s an engineer, a plumber, and builder just on the first ride where my plot is Imagine the wealth of knowledge on the whole field. I also know there’s a few of them still go shooting regularly and a couple go beating on the local estate. It all adds up to a fantastic wealth of local knowledge. Admittedly some of them don’t get on with others, there’s a bit of a parking feud going on at the moment, but I know for a fact these same chaps would put that aside in a crisis. Without realising it a cohesive and close-knit likeminded group has formed. These folk are the vanguard to what is called prepping.

It’s not just what they know, but who. Even with the transient nature of society these days, the old families of the area are still here. As an incomer myself, I know very few of the local families, the ones who have lived here for generations, which families are a bad lot and those who can be trusted. It’s local knowledge like that, which takes generations to accumulate that I feel is worth its weight in gold and could be the difference between success and failure.

My rambling point is it’s not always necessary to start a prepping group, although that would obviously be a big help, but you may already be in a group that is more likely to survive than the average Joe without realising it. Look around you and you may just be surprised.

Project Status

Things have been moving on at the SD ranch. I’ve got most of my items potted and seeds sown so looking forward to a bumper harvest. Hopefully much better than the last few years.

The chickens are doing fine in their enclosure, still escaping every time someone makes a mistake with the gate but they are easily caught. I tried including a pair of bantams but the cock spent all its time harassing the hens and even at night went into their coop with them. A failure but not a biggie. Just means I can’t let both coops into the enclosure together. So they take turns on a daily basis. Seems to be working fine. The pair of bantams now seem to be sitting on eggs so I’m watching to see how that goes.

There was significant movement on the bees though over the week. I thought I had found a few Queen cells which means the hive was getting ready to swarm. Called in an expert and discussed options. I wanted to create a new hive making two hives from the one I had which is one option. The other being to destroy the queen cells to prevent a new queen being born. It appears that I didn’t identify the issue correctly, I did have two queen cells but the rest were queen cups, apparently the bees like to build these structures to confuse us for some reason so it wasn’t quite as bad as I thought.

It was decided that as the queen cup was on a full frame of brood which meant it would be easy to create a new hive so I built up a new hive and moved the frames and bees around so that the old hive, with the old queen stayed where they were while the new hive, a frame full of brood and a queen cell plus a bunch of nursery bees were placed a short distance away. In a week or so I should have a new queen and a fully functional second hive gathering honey. The benefit of a second hive with bees is immeasurable as there is so much to go wrong with just one hive that the simple addition of a second hive can resolve. Over the weekend my friend had discovered his queen was dead. By moving eggs and brood from his other hive he has now kick started that hive again.

Bees are one area where you need more than one as a necessity, anything can kill a queen, you can even do it yourself whilst checking the hive. Make sure you have contingency.