Helen,

Thanks for your good info. I knew it was wallaby-like, but the details you posted pretty much let me see it clearly.

We have a similar recipe on the Illinois River here in Illinois. It is for the fish, CARP. You take the carp and wrap it in fresh horse manure. Dig a pit and put glowing coals at the bottom. Then the carp and then a layer of seaweed and a layer of gravel alternately until the pit is filled. Let that bake for several days. Then uncover it all, crack the dried horse manure off of the carp with an ax handle, throw away the fish and eat the dung.

It's interesting to folklorists that the AX survives in both tales. ;-)

Art