HARE, Stewed

Ingredients

• Cut to pieces
• 1 lb. of beef
• ½ lb. of bacon
• mace
• pepper
• an onion stuck with cloves
• an anchovy
• sweet herbs
• salt
• nutmeg
• take butter the size of a walnut
• a tablespoonful of ketchup
• two of red wine

Method

1. 1

   Cut the hare into pieces and put into a stew-pan with mace, pepper, an onion stuck with cloves, an anchovy, 1 lb. of beef, ½ lb. of bacon, sweet herbs, and salt.

2. 2

   Cover with water and stew till the hare is tender.

3. 3

   Strain the sauce into a clean pan and put the hare again with the sauce.

4. 4

   Take butter the size of a walnut, rolled in flour, a tablespoonful of ketchup, and two of red wine.

5. 5

   Stew till it is thick and smooth.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 253. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

nutmeg. Put it into a jar with an onion, a clove or two, a bunch of sweet herbs, a piece of coarse beef, or good beef steak, and the bones of the hare at the top. Tie the jar down with a bladder or strong paper. Put into a saucepan up to the neck. Keep the water boiling four hours. The jar will also do well in an oven in two or three hours. When it is to be served, boil the gravy up with a piece of butte*' and flour. Add a little stock gravy, and a glass or two of port wine. Pour it over the hare. A little bacon is an improve- ment. HARE, to Pot. — Season and bake with butter ; when cold beat the meat in a mortar with some nice cold ham, a little parsley, thyme, &c. If not high enough, add salt, mace, pep- per, a little butter melted in a spoonful of gravy that came from the hare. Pot, and cover with butter. HARE, Roasted. — After skin- ning, wash well. Stuff with bread crumbs, the liver half boiled, an an- chovy, or bacon, parsley, grated lemon- peel, nutmeg, salt, cayenne, the yolks of three eggs, and a little lemon-thyme. Fasten all tight. Boil half an hour. Take out and roast it for one hour or more. Baste it with milk till half done, then with butter. Do not place too near the fire. Serve with rich gravy, melted butter, and currant jelly sauce. The gravy may be improved by ketchup, port wine, and a little flour. HARE SOUP.— Cut the hare into pieces, and 1 % lb. of good beef ; put into a jar with three blades of mace, two large onions, three anchovies, a little bacon or ham, a bunch of sweet herbs, cayenne, and a pint of port wine. Stew in the oven three hours ; strain into a stew-pan ; put in % lb. of French barley, or the crumbs of two penny rolls, ready boiled ; scald the liver, rub it through a sieve into the soup ; place on the fire till near boiling. Put toasted bread in the tureen, and pour the soup upon it. HARE, Stewed.— Cut to pieces; put into a stew-pan, with mace, pepper. HAR 207 HKA an onion stuck with cloves, an anchovy, 1 lb. of beef, % lb. of bacon, sweet herbs, salt, nuuneg ; cover with water ; stew till the hare is tender ; strain the sauce into a clean pan, and put in the hare again with the sauce ; take butter the sue of a walnut, rolled in flour, a table-spoonful of ketchup, and two of red wine

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