Hare Soup made of Cooked Hare

Ingredients

• three pints of water
• one sliced onion
• some thyme
• some parsley
• a gill of red wine
• a little cayenne

Method

1. 1

   Simmer hare remains in water with onion and herbs until reduced to a quart.

2. 2

   Strain, chop nice pieces of hare, thicken with flour and butter, add cayenne and wine, bring to boil, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a little cayenne pepper if agreeable. Hare Soup. — (Family Recipe.) — Take an old hare, wash it in several waters, cut it in small pieces, put it into three quarts of boiling water. Add half a teacupful of washed rice, two onions, a good bunch of herbs, and a little pepper and salt. Let the soup simmer for five hours, when it will be reduced to half the quantity. Strain it off. Melt in a saucepan an ounce of butter, mix with this an ounce of flour, and a glass of p art wine. Pour the soup on this, bring it to the boil, and serve. (The hare will pot or hash afterwards.) Hare Soup made of Cooked Hare.— (Family Recipe.)— Take three pints of water, put all remains of the hare into it, with one sliced onion, some thyme and parsley. Simmer till the soup is reduced to a quart. Strain. Cut off any nice pieces of the hare and chop them small. Thicken with a little HARE SOUP MADE OF COOKED HARE 49 flour and butter, give a dust of cayenne, add a gill of red wine

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