Rabbit Soup

Ingredients

• Two rabbits
• three ounces of butter
• two quarts of boiling water
• one and one-half ounces of flour of rice
• one grain of grated nutmeg
• three Bermuda onions
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Soak the rabbits in salt water for an hour, cut into pieces, and wash in boiling water.

2. 2

   Place in a saucepan with boiling water, onions, pepper, and salt.

3. 3

   Boil until meat separates from the bone.

4. 4

   In a separate saucepan, melt butter, stir in flour of rice, strain rabbit liquor into it, add nutmeg, and cook slowly for fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from My mother's cook book (1902) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rabbit Soup. — Materials and quantities must be provided as follows : Two rabbits, three ounces of butter, two quarts of boiling water, one and one^half ounces of flour of rice, one grain of grated nutmeg, three Bermuda onions, one teaspoonful of salt, one quarter of \a teaspoonful of pepper

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