Name: Leveret Larded
Ingredients: 1 leveret (young hare); bacon; butter

Leveret Larded

Ingredients

1 leveret (young hare)
bacon
butter

Directions

Lard the leveret closely with bacon, using larger pieces than usual.
Roast the leveret for twenty minutes, basting it with butter frequently during cooking.

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

Bacon: Adds fat and savory flavor to the lean meat as it renders during roasting.
Butter: Adds fat and browning as it is basted over the leveret, keeping the surface 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.