Baked Rabbit

Ingredients

• Skin and clean carefully
• Lay it in salt water for an hr.
• sprinkle with salt and pepper
• a dressing made of bread crumbs, chopped salt pork, onion, pepper, salt, and thyme
• enough hot water to keep it from burning

Method

1. 1

   Lay the rabbit in salt water for an hour, then scald with boiling water, wipe it dry, sprinkle with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Stuff with dressing, sew up; place slices of salt pork on it, place in a baking-pan with hot water to prevent burning.

3. 3

   Baste often.

4. 4

   Serve with mashed potatoes and currant jelly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 244. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED RABBIT.— Skin and clean carefully. Lay it in salt water for an hr., then scald with boiling water, wipe it dry, sprin- kle with salt and pepper. Stuff with a dressing made of bread crumbs, chopped salt pork, onion, pepper, salt, and thyme, sew up; place some slices of salt pork on it, place it in a baking-pan 356 GAME with enough hot water to keep -it from burnin

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