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Roast Possum With Spiced Apples & Sweet Potatoes

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      Title: ROAST POSSUM WITH SPICED APPLES & SWEET POTATOES
 Categories: Game, Opossum, Main dish, Tennessee
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
           Flour
           Salt and freshly ground
           -black pepper
      1 ts Thyme
      1 ea Possum; dressed, washed, and
           -patted dry (see recipe for
           -"How to Prepare Possum"
    1/2 c  Red wine
  1 1/4 c  Water
      4 ea Sweet potatoes; pared and
           -split lengthwise
      4 ea Apples; pared, cored, and
           -halved
      1 c  Brown sugar
    1/2 ts Allspice
    3/4 ts Ground cinnamon
    1/2 ts Nutmeg
 
     Mix flour, salt, pepper, and thyme and rub inside and outside the
  animal. Place on rack in roasting pan. Add the wine and water, cover
  tightly, and roast in a preheated 350 degree oven for about an hour.
     Pour off all but a cup of the liquid. Lay the sweet potatoes in
  the pan, cover, and continue roasting 45 minutes. Now lay in the
  cored and halved apples amid the sweet potatoes and sprinkle both
  fruit and vegetables with a mixture of the sugar and the spices.
     Continue to roast, with the roaster now uncovered, for another 30
  minutes, or until the possum is tender.
  
  _The L.L. Bean Game & Fish Cookbook_  Angus Cameron and Judith Jones
  Random House, 1983   ISBN 0-394-51191-3
 
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