Recipe: Rabbit Stew

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Ingredients:

1 Rabbit cut in pieces
½ cup dry white wine
½ cup chicken broth
2 oz cubed lean bacon
2 tbs bacon drippings
1 cup pearl or boiling onions peeled
2 carrots, peeled and slice into large pieces
1 bouquet garni containing bay leaves, peppercorns, thyme and parsley
2 tbs Dijon mustard
Flour
¼ cup heavy cream
Salt and pepper

Procedure:

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F.
In a large heavy bottomed pot or dutch oven, heat the bacon drippings over medium heat, add the bacon and brown. Temporarily remove the bacon from the pot. Meanwhile, pat dry and generously season the rabbit with salt and pepper and then dredge in the flour. Carefully place the rabbit in the pot and brown well on all sides. When the meat is a golden brown, return the ventreche to the pot and add the remaining ingredients with the exception of the cream. Bring the liquid to a simmer, place a heavy lid on the pot and place in the oven. Let cook undisturbed for 1 hour.
At the end of the hour, remove the rabbit and vegetables to a warm dish, cover with foil and let rest. While the rabbit is resting, remove the bouquet garni from the pot, turn up the heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the cooking liquid by half, then add the crèam. When the sauce has thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon, remove from the heat and correct the seasoning. Ladle over the rabbit and serve.

Adding a link of good sausage cut in about 2 inch pieces would be a good thing too.

[CnW]

Have you ever had rabbit or squirrel dumplings? I know a lot of hunters that make them at their hunting cabin after the kill. I don't prefer rabbit or squirrel myself. Mom use to cook both years ago but I couldn't bring myself to eat it.

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I don't mind rabbit, preferring tame rabbit to wild rabbit. I really don't care for tree rat (squirrel) but will eat it if that's what is on the table. As for game dumpling dishes, we used to make quail and dumplings when we had a good day quail hunting. That's Good Eats. Made just like chicken and dumplings with about a dozen quail breasts.

[It's On A Slab]

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	I don't mind rabbit, preferring tame rabbit to wild rabbit. I really don't care for tree rat (squirrel) but will eat it if that's what is on the table. As for game dumpling dishes, we used to make quail and dumplings when we had a good day quail hunting. That's Good Eats. Made just like chicken and dumplings with about a dozen quail breasts.

I'm wondering: The rabbits killed in the wild usually bring with them a significant risk of tularemia.

Have you killed any that you've cooked? Do you take any precautions? Gloves, etc.

I shoot them in my backyard in the early Spring just to keep them away from my tulips. Though, having an pet in the backyard has alleviated the need in recent years. Rabbits don't come in my yard as much.

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	Quote:	It's On A Slab
	I'm wondering: The rabbits killed in the wild usually bring with them a significant risk of tularemia. Have you killed any that you've cooked? Do you take any precautions? Gloves, etc. I shoot them in my backyard in the early Spring just to keep them away from my tulips. Though, having an pet in the backyard has alleviated the need in recent years. Rabbits don't come in my yard as much.

I haven't been rabbit or squirrel hunting since the mid 80's. I had a guy that worked for me that raised tame rabbits and I would buy them from him. They were huge! I paid something like $5 each dressed. In fact, I haven't been hunting at all since the mid to late 80's. I still fish a bit but that's all.

[BamaJeff]

Rabbit is pretty good but I don't much care for squirrel. I have squirrel hunted many times though. I actually enjoy it although I haven't been in about 5 years. I used to kill them and take them to a family that loved'em.