To boil RABBITS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Time
Cook: 45 min Total: 45 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (3)
for smothering
for garnish
Instructions (6)
  1. When you have cased your rabbits, skewer them with their heads straight up, the fore-legs brought down, and their hind-legs straight,
  2. boil them three quarters of an hour at least,
  3. then smother them with onion sauce, made the same as for boiled ducks,
  4. pull out the jaw bones,
  5. stick them in their eyes,
  6. put a sprig of myrtle or barberries in their mouths, and serve them up.
Original Text
To boil RABBITS. WHEN you have cased your rabbits, skewer them with their heads straight up, the fore-legs brought down, and their hind-legs straight, boil them three quarters of an hour at least, then smother them with onion sauce, made the same as for boiled ducks, pull out the jaw bones, stick them in their eyes, put a sprig of myrtle or bar- berries in their mouths, and serve them up.
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