Rabbit Pie

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
Source
The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Time
Cook: 120 min Total: 120 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (13)
for adding gravy
Instructions (11)
  1. Cut a couple of young rabbits into quarters.
  2. Take a quarter of a pound of bacon, and bruise it to pieces in a marble mortar, with the livers, some pepper, salt, a little mace, some parsley cut small, some chives, and a few leaves of sweet basil.
  3. When these are all beaten fine, make the paste, and cover the bottom of the pie with the seasoning.
  4. Put in the rabbits.
  5. Pound some more bacon in a mortar, and with it some fresh butter.
  6. Cover the rabbits with this.
  7. Lay over it some thin slices of bacon.
  8. Put on the lid, and send it to the oven.
  9. It will take two hours baking.
  10. When it is done, remove the lid, take out the bacon, and scum of the fat.
  11. If there is not gravy enough in the pie, pour in some rich mutton or veal gravy boiling hot.
Original Text
Rabbit Pie. CUT a couple of young rabbits into quarters; then take a quarter of a pound of bacon, and bruise it to pieces in a marble mortar, with the livers, some pepper, salt, a little mace, some parsley cut small, some chives, and a few leaves of sweet basil. When these are all beaten fine, make the paste, and cover the bottom of the pie with the seasoning. Then put in the rabbits, pound some more bacon in a mortar, and with it some fresh butter. Cover the rabbits with this, and lay over it some thin slices of bacon: put on the lid, and send it to the oven. It will take two hours baking. When it is done, remove the lid, take out the bacon, and scum of the fat. If there is not gravy enough in the pie, pour in some rich mutton or veal gravy boiling hot.
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