Bear meat, any cooks out there, thoughts, recipes etc.

[Ron LaClair]

as was stated earlier, definately save (and render) some of the external body fat. I hear you can use it for almost anything. It cleans up nice and white. My wife made a pie crust using it and it was really good !  

I use to render down the bear fat and we used it for cooking, pie crust, cookies, or just frying grease. One time when Jay Massey was in Michigan he stayed at our house. I popped pop corn one night while we watched TV. Jay commented on how good the pop corn was and I told him I popped it in bear grease. He said, "hmmm I'll have to tell Martha about that"

 

Bear grease, you can use it on your boots, you can use it on your hair. You can use it in the frying pan, you can use it anywhere .

[Ray_G]

In addition to all the great ideas you are getting, I'll throw this in.  I had my local butcher shop make smoked ham out of both hind quarters.  He boned them, put them in the net material and smoke cured them.  Good eatin'!