Deer/8 recipes

Use this mustard on anything, including an assortment of grilled sausages (bratwurst, bockwurst, knackwurst or chicken sausage).

Crispy beer batter onion rings with rested batter for the lightest, lacy crust. Cold beer and egg yolks build crunch that holds. Same batter works on fish, vegetables, and seafood.

Osage fry bread, a Native American skillet bread cut into diamonds and fried until pillowy and golden. Crisp blistered exterior with a tender, pull-apart interior for tacos, honey, or powdered sugar.

Indian yam curry with deep-fried yam cubes simmered in a spiced tomato-yogurt sauce loaded with cumin, cardamom, and fresh ginger.

Crispy Vietnamese imperial rolls (cha gio) with ground pork, tree-ear mushrooms, bean sprouts, and bean thread noodles. Includes a homemade nuoc cham dipping sauce.

Warm Springs fried bread fries soft baking powder dough rounds in hot lard for the puffy, golden Native American fry bread of the Pacific Northwest tribes.

Crispy deep-fried bean curd cubes with a spicy peanut dipping sauce made with roasted peanuts, rice vinegar, cilantro, and chile oil. A quick vegetarian appetizer.

Golden and brown on the outside, flakey and tender in the inside. Serve it with this deliciously sweet and sour sauce.

A bold beef barbecue sauce simmered with beer, chili sauce, pimento-stuffed olives, and butter. Briny, tangy, and ready in 15 minutes. Makes 1½ cups of pure backyard magic.

Fried rabbit in breadcrumbs: a double-dredged, crisp-coated classic that treats rabbit like fried chicken. Milk-flour wash, then egg, then breadcrumbs. Serves with sautéed potatoes and greens.

Cherry pie with a cinnamon crumb topping made by crumbling a frozen pie crust over sour cherry filling. A clever shortcut that uses two frozen crusts in completely different ways.

Fresh apple and sausage quiche: a savory-sweet brunch pie with bulk pork sausage, sauteed onions, sharp cheese, and cubed Red Delicious apples in a custard. Sweet, salty, and unexpected.

This is by far the best chili mac recipe I have tried in a long time. I made some minor substitutions: 1-10oz can of Rotel/w chiles, made up the balance with 4oz of flat beer, 1 finely diced clove of garlic for the ingredients. Turned out Great! Thanks. 52jimh

Crispy fried samosas using egg roll wrappers filled with spiced potatoes, peas, cumin, coriander, and fresh cilantro. A shortcut Indian appetizer fried golden in minutes.

Thai Noodles with Vegetable and Curry Sauce recipe

James Beard's hands-on masterclass in a three-layer cake: beating butter by hand, folding egg whites like a soufflé, and mastering classic technique for a fluffy golden crumb with citrus filling.