To stew a Hare

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 120 min Total: 120 min
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Ingredients (13)
Instructions (7)
  1. When you have paunched and cased your hare, cut her as for eating.
  2. Put her into a large saucepan, with three pints of beef gravy, a pint of red wine, a large onion stuck with cloves, a bundle of winter savory, a slice of horse-radish, two blades of beaten mace, one anchovy, a spoonful of walnut or mum catchup, one of browning, half a lemon, Chyan and salt to your taste.
  3. Put on a close cover, and set it over a gentle fire, and stew it for two hours.
  4. Then take it up into a soup dish.
  5. Thicken your gravy with a lump of butter rolled in flour.
  6. Boil it a little, and strain it over your hare.
  7. Garnish with lemon peel cut like straws, and serve it up.
Original Text
To ſtew a HARE. WHEN you have paunched and caſed your hare, cut her as for eating, put her into a large ſaucepan, with three pints of beef gravy, a pint of red wine, a large onion ſtuck with cloves, a bundle of winter ſavory, a ſlice of horſe-radiſh, two blades of beaten mace, one anchovy, a ſpoonful of walnut or mum catchup, one of browning, half a lemon, Chyan and ſalt to your taſte, put on a cloſe cover, and ſet it over a gentle fire, and ſtew it for two hours, then take it up into a ſoup dish, and thicken your gravy with a lump of butter rolled in flour, boil it a little, and ſtrain it over your hare.—Garnish with le- mon peel cut like ſtraws, and ſerve it up.
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