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A couple years ago my wife gave me heck when I didn't bring the hooves home with the rest of an elk.

She is from Germany and says in butcher shops there they sell calves' shanks and hooves for soup.

So this year I brought her home four moose hooves on the shanks.

We boiled them and skinned them, removed the outer hoof covering and froze them..

Yesterday we thawed one out and pressure cooked it, then she removed all the bones.

Just had some moose hoof soup for lunch. Chinese style, with broth over noodles and sliced green onion and the boiled hoof and tendon and meat in pieces as well.

I have always been partial to beef tendon soup in Chinatown and this beats it by a 100 miles!