519. Rabbit Curry

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
Time
Cook: 45 min Total: 45 min
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Ingredients (9)
Instructions (10)
  1. Cut up a rabbit into smallish pieces, splitting the head in halves.
  2. Cut up two large onions and one apple into very small dice.
  3. Fry the diced onions and apple in a stewpan with two ounces of butter.
  4. When nicely browned, add a good tablespoonful of curry powder, a teaspoonful of curry paste, half one of flour, and a pint of stock.
  5. Mix well together.
  6. Put in the rabbit, with half a pound of streaked bacon, cut into square pieces the size of filberts.
  7. Let the whole stew very gently upon a very slow fire (or put the stewpan closely covered down into a warm oven) for three quarters of an hour.
  8. When done, which you may ascertain by trying with the point of a knife if the flesh will leave the bone easily, pour off as much of the fat as possible, and turn it out upon your dish.
  9. Serve with rice separately.
  10. The curry sauce should be sufficiently thick to envelop each piece of the rabbit.
Original Text
519. Rabbit Curry.—Cut up a rabbit into smallish pieces, splitting the head in halves, cut up two large onions and one apple into very small dice, which fry in a stewpan with two ounces of butter; when nicely browned, add a good tablespoonful of curry powder, a teaspoonful of curry paste, half one of flour, and a pint of stock, mix well together, then put in the rabbit, with half a pound of streaked bacon, cut into square pieces the size of filberts, let the whole stew very gently upon a very slow fire (or put the stewpan closely covered down into a warm oven) three quarters of an hour; when done, which you may ascertain by trying with the point of a knife if the flesh will leave the bone easily, pour off as much of the fat as possible, and turn it out upon your dish; serve with rice separately. The curry sauce should be sufficiently thick to envelop each piece of the rabbit.
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