Cooking with the Government

I have an RSS feed to my email for government updates.  They often have answers to frequently asked questions.  There are so many government websites that I never knew about.  A person (that might be me) could spend hours just going from one to the other. I was following some health links and came across this little gem.
http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Health/Recipes.shtml
Somewhere along life's journey I  heard of Senate bean soup and now I can make it myself if I want. It's hard to resist jokes about the Senate being full of beans. I sure that clever comment has been made about a million times since the soup  first appeared on the daily menu in the Senate Restaurant in 1903. (I think this factoid should be worked into a Jeopardy question)
I had never heard of  Mamie Eisenhower's Million Dollar Fudge and was pretty excited about it,  but after following the link I was sad to see that it looks just like the recipe on the back of the marshmallow cream jar.
I also learned how to make Sweet Potato Biscuits for 360 people under the school recipe section.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/FDD/recipes/sch/sweetpotbiscuits.pdf
The "kids" section was fun and educational. It explains how to simulate an earthquake with jello.  I noticed that all of the recipes in the kid section were based on the "sugar" food group. It made me think of Michelle Obama's campaign to help the kids of America eat better and avoid obesity.  I sent her an email and suggested that for the sake of consistency in the government message they rethink the kids section. You may think I am joking, but I really did send that email. I haven't heard back (yet) but I am hoping to be offered a job monitoring the government websites.  I also found some broken links, but I didn't report those to the First Lady.
Lastly and most yummy of all is the following recipe for white squirrel gravy, courtesy of the great state of West Virginia.
http://www.wvdnr.gov/Hunting/WRecipe.shtm

White Squirrel Gravy

4 squirrels	Water
Salt and pepper, to taste	Flour
½ stick butter	Hot biscuits

   Cut each squirrel into four pieces.  Place in heavy pot.  Add enough water to cover squirrels well.  Add salt and pepper.  Boil slowly until squirrels are tender.  Remove all pieces of squirrel from stock. Roll each piece heavily in flour; gently drop back into boiling stock.  Add the butter and cook slowly until stock has thickened to gravy.  Serve over hot biscuits.

I will end today's post here. I'm going to be busy. So many government websites, so little time.