Cooked Horse Meat

Most horse meat in a wipe comes from an accident, not a hunt. You ride down a road on a single horse saddle with a bag full of ore, someone opens up from the treeline, and the horse goes down before you do. If you live through the fight, the body is still lying on the asphalt. Skin it. An animal that cost you time to tame and kit out may as well pay you back in food.

What you carry off is raw horse meat, and its own text warns that eating it raw damages your health. Throw it on a camp fire or whatever is burning at home, and pull it out once it is done, because left in the heat it becomes burnt horse meat, which hurts you as well.

Hunting wild horses just for this rarely pays. The game text gives it the same promise as most cooked meat, some health, hunger and thirst, while a horse you can ride gets you to a monument and back with the loot. Save your arrows for boars and deer.