Hare Soup

Ingredients

• a Hare cut in pieces
• 81b. of beef
• 81b. of veal
• lib. of bacon
• two turnips
• three onions
• a bunch of parsley
• a handful of thyme
• four bay-leaves
• three heads of celery
• 1 pint of broth
• 12oz. of flour
• 2gal. of clear broth
• 1 pint of brown gravy
• 2 table-spoonfuls of flour
• 1 teaspoonful of salt
• 1 table-spoonful of sugar
• a pinch of cayenne

Method

1. 1

   Chop beef, veal, and bacon into small pieces.

2. 2

   Put them in a stewpan with turnips, onions, parsley, thyme, bay leaves, and celery.

3. 3

   Pour in broth, add Hare, and stir until meat is glazed.

4. 4

   Sprinkle in flour, mix in clear broth and brown gravy.

5. 5

   When Hare is tender, remove it, pound the meat, and pass it through a sieve.

6. 6

   Mix flour with port wine, add salt, sugar, and broth, stir into the soup, add fillets, and serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hare Soup.- -(1) Chop 81b. each of beef and veal into small pieces, and add lib. of bacon, also cut up. Put them in a stewpan with two turnips, three onions, a bunch of parsley, a handful of thyme, a little basil, four bay-leaves, and three heads of celery. Pour in 1 pint of broth, set the pan on a moderate fire, add a Hare cut in pieces, and stir well until the meat is covered with a brown glaze. Then sprinkle in 12oz. of flour, and mix in 2gal. of clear broth or stock, and 1 pint of brown gravy. When the Hare meat is quite tender, take it out, cut off twelve fillets from the best parts, remove the rest from the bones, and pound it in a mortar. Put it back in the liquor, pass it all through a sieve into another saucepan, place it on the fire again, and boil. Mix 2 table-spoonfuls of flour in a basin with four times the quantity of port wine, add 1 teaspoonful of salt, 1 table-spoonful of sugar, and a pinch of cayenne

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