What is the best way to make tough old squirrels tender?
Easy...
Go to your local meat store that sells high-quality meats, buy a 5 lb. prime rib (w/chine-bone out), invite another couple over for dinner, "do" some Harvard Beets and twice-baked potatoes together with a tasty loaf of home-made rye bread... serve with a bottle or two of Berringer's Merlot.
Then sit back and accept all the praise you'll get for NOT serving everyone tough, ol' "Tree-Rat" (aka "squirrel")!!!
Strength & Honor...
Ron T.