Rabbit Stew

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (13)
Stewing the rabbit
Thickening the gravy
Enriching the sauce
Instructions (8)
  1. Cut your rabbits as before, and put them into a tossing-pan.
  2. Add a pint of veal gravy, a tea-spoonful of lemon pickle, one anchovy, a slice of lemon, a little beaten mace, Chyan pepper and salt.
  3. Stew them over a slow fire until they are done.
  4. Thicken your gravy with flour and butter.
  5. Strain the gravy.
  6. Add the yolks of two eggs mixed with a large tea-cupfull of thick cream, and a little nutmeg grated in it.
  7. Do not let it boil.
  8. Serve it up.
Original Text
CUT your rabbits as before, and put them into a tossing-pan, with a pint of veal gravy, a tea-spoonful of lemon pickle, one anchovy, a slice of lemon, a little beaten mace, Chyan pepper and salt, stew them over a slow fire, when they are enough, thicken your gravy with flour and butter, strain it, then add the yolks of two eggs mixed with a large tea-cupfull of thick cream, and a little nutmeg grated in it, do not let it boil, and serve it up.
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