Pet Ferret'S Soup
- 4 cups ferret food (kibble)
- 2 cups goat's milk
- 1/2 lb lard
- 3 tablespoons tapioca starch
- 12 eggs
- 1 lb chicken leg quarter
- 1 lb pork chop
- 1 1 lb rabbit or 1 lb lamb
- 2 lbs soup bones, neck bones work well too (optional)
- 20 cups water (roundabout)
- Place meats into a large stock pot.
- cover with water.
- bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to simmer.
- Simmer for 5 to 8 hours adding water to your both when needed.
- Turn off heat.
- Strain broth, remove meat, discard bones and ALL FAT, set aside.
- Note: this should make around 7 cups of both more or less.
- In a large saucepan melt lard over low heat, add tapioca starch and stir.
- Stir milk into lard
- add broth to lard/milk stir.
- Separate eggs and beat.
- Add some warm soup (broth/lard/milk mixture) to egg yolks, stir.
- add egg yolk mix to the soup.
- Stir for 30 sec.
- Stir egg whites and ferret kibble into soup.
- heat for 2 min with constance string and cool for 1 hour.
- stir off and on when cooling soup.
- Shred up meat well!
- in a blender blend 4 parts soup, 3 parts water, 2 parts shredded meat for 10 to 20 sec and freeze ( this should make about 2 gallons of condense soup. I freeze mine in 20 one quart zip lock bags.)
- unfreeze 2 tablespoons of soup in microwave add 2 tablespoons of water. (per ferret).
- test heat, when lukewarm serve to your lucky little ferret.
ferret food, goats milk, lard, tapioca starch, eggs, chicken, pork chop, rabbit, water
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/pet-ferrets-soup-293009 (may not work)