Simple Way to Cook a Rabbit

Ingredients

• Large sprig of parsley
• 1^ or 2 cupfuls of boiling water
• Some nice pieces of bacon
• I rabbit
• I de.s.sertspoonful of dripping
• I onion

Method

1. 1

   Soak the rabbit in salt and water for 15 minutes, after washing it.

2. 2

   Keep liver, heart and head, removing the eyes.

3. 3

   Make dripping very hot in stewpan.

4. 4

   Dry the rabbit, divide into pieces, then fry them brown in hot fat.

5. 5

   Add the onion and parsley, both finely chopped, then head, heart and liver, salt and pepper.

6. 6

   Then pour in the boiling water.

7. 7

   Stir gently till it just comes to the boil, put on the lid, draw to the side, and simmer gently till tender.

8. 8

   Have bacon nicely fried immediately before dishing rabbit, and place neatly round.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The St. Mungo cookery book (1904) by Jean Lambie, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SIMPLE WAY TO COOK A RABBIT. Large sprig of parsley. 1^ or 2 cupfuls of boiling water. Some nice pieces of bacon. Soak the rabbit in salt and water for 15 minutes, after wa.shing it. Keep liver, heart and head, removing the eyes. I rabbit. I de.s.sertspoonful of dripping. I onion

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