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To Roast a Rabbit Hare-fashion

A rabbit roasted after being larded with bacon, served with gravy or white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Roast a Rabbit Hare-fashion

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lard the rabbit with bacon.

  2. Roast the rabbit as you would a hare.

  3. Make gravy sauce to serve with it, or prepare a white sauce if you do not lard it.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Rabbit
Is the main protein that is roasted and served as the centre of the dish.
Bacon
Larded through the rabbit, it adds fat and savoury flavour that keeps the lean meat moist.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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