Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

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As some will know from this post:-
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/1022489-post21.html

I bought a rabbit, It didn't need batteries ladies, it was dead and ready for the 15 hours I gave it in the slow cooker.

Must be about 20 years since the last time I had one, won't leave it that long before I have another.
Cost's about the same as a chicken but at least a family of four will get a leg each.:)

Was considering whether to roast or stick it in a broth, glad I went for the broth no need to peel spuds for roasties.

Oh how unbelievable the flesh was when I tried my first bowl, melt in the mouth wonderful, I had forgotten how small a rabbits bones can be but they come in handy as a natural toothpick.

If you've never had rabbit, forget the Aw poor little bunny idea, try it, give it to your kids, what a great forgotten meal it is.
:D
 
I second that Less, but stop it you're making me hungry! There was a great pile of them on Bury market last Sat, didn't buy one as we already had food for the week and no room in the freezer...

When we lived in the country we would sometimes find one hangng on the back door handle, courtesy of the local gamekeeper - and the cats would sometimes catch them, but usually only babies, not big enough to have any sensible amount of meat - and often they weren't dead so we would let them go.

The only problem is the tiny little bones - but rabbit is nice roasted as well, jointed and wrapped in a bit of bacon, and doesn't fall apart then so the bones are easier to find.

Glad you enjoyed it - and several more meals to come!
 
I vaguely remember having rabbit as a boy but all I can remember is the awful smell as it cooked. Have I got that wrong?
 
Gordon Booth said:
I vaguely remember having rabbit as a boy but all I can remember is the awful smell as it cooked. Have I got that wrong?
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How old was the rabbit? Had you checked the sell by date? What colour were the maggot's?

Don't know to be honest, only know that when I was cooking mine the tantalising smells coming from the kitchen were agony in a, I want to eat it now sort of way.

:D
 
susie123 said:
rabbit is nice roasted as well, jointed and wrapped in a bit of bacon,
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As much as I enjoyed the rabbit, I would have preferred if it had been wrapped in the whole pig, crackling? Bring it on.
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Less said:
As much as I enjoyed the rabbit, I would have preferred if it had been wrapped in the whole pig, crackling? Bring it on.
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Ha ha there'd have to be something intermediate is size between the pig and the rabbit - any suggestions? Though if you used a sucking pig that would probably be small enough not to need anything else. Veggies look away now!
 
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I had a boyfriend in the dim and distant past...he invited me to his parents place for tea.
The meal was to be rabbit pie...unfortunately his mother was laid low by a slipped disc and was unable to cook...so it was down to me. I think I might have been about 17.
What on earth made this lad think I was capable of cooking a rabbit pie? I don't quite know, but I casseroled the rabbit pieces(he did the chopping up of the rabbit) with carrot, shallots and some barley.
I made the pastry crust and we went out for the afternoon leaving the rabbit cooking in a slow oven....when we came back, I put the crust on the pie and peeled some spuds( this wasn't quite the romantic day I had thought it was going to be).......the rabbit pie was scoffed by everyone except me(I just had the veggies and gravy with my mash...and a bit of pie crust) His dad and his sister...(heck why didn't she do the cooking? She was out with her bofriend - that's why!) said the pie was delicious....and I could come and cook for them any day. That's one of the reasons he got dumped.......I didn't want to be cooking for someone else's family....I did enough og that at home.
So Rabbit doesn't have good memories for me.
 
susie123 said:
Ha ha there'd have to be something intermediate is size between the pig and the rabbit - any suggestions? Though if you used a sucking pig that would probably be small enough not to need anything else. Veggies look away now!
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I think I'd pay extra for a pig like that, but could I eat it afterwards knowing how intimate we had been?
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MargaretR said:
My dad used to trap rabbits to supplement our meagre food ration in the 40s.

Eating rabbits stopped due to -
Myxomatosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
in the 50s.

The rabbits you buy now have genetic resistance to the infection.
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Thanks for sharing that Mags, how to make folk lose their appetite in one easy lesson.

Though rabbits with myxo don't look very nice, they are still edible so I just don't care about your miserable reply.
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susie123 said:
Not really, it's more gamey. That's just a convenient half truth put about to encourage people to eat it. And I've still got a squirrel in my freezer...
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Oh no not squirrel as well! I just couldn't do it but fair play to you if you can! I think it's a bit hypocritical of me that I have no qualms about eating a lovely rare steak and I do like a nice pork chop now and again, but I draw the line at offal and little pretty furry animals! Its my problem without question!
 
annesingleton said:
Oh no not squirrel as well! I just couldn't do it but fair play to you if you can! I think it's a bit hypocritical of me that I have no qualms about eating a lovely rare steak and I do like a nice pork chop now and again, but I draw the line at offal and little pretty furry animals! Its my problem without question!
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Ha Anne I knew that would get you going! I haven't tried the squirrel yet, I got it at a farmer's market some time ago. I don't like hare but that's nothing to do with it being a furry animal - the meat is just a bit strongtasting for me.

Can't think of anything else I won't eat - except tuna and that's because I was force fed it while I was in digs for six months, really put me off. And that was 40 odd years ago, the mention of it still turns my stomach to this day.
 
susie123 said:
Ha Anne I knew that would get you going! I haven't tried the squirrel yet, I got it at a farmer's market some time ago. I don't like hare but that's nothing to do with it being a furry animal - the meat is just a bit strongtasting for me.

Can't think of anything else I won't eat - except tuna and that's because I was force fed it while I was in digs for six months, really put me off. And that was 40 odd years ago, the mention of it still turns my stomach to this day.
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I honestly couldn't eat anything that isn't from a cow in the main or a pig, I don't like lamb but eat it occasionally when I do a slow roasted shoulder. It's my problem and I know I shouldn't be so squeamish, meat is meat no matter where it comes from - but I'd have to be literally starving to consider squirrel which would be to me in the same category as brain, heart, and other such stuff - maybe I'd consider rabbit at a pinch but its the thought of it being so fluffy and cute I can't cope with!
A few years ago we spent a few days in Corfu Town which was wonderful, but one of the better restaurants had sheeps entrails on the menu - needless to say we didn't eat there!
 
Flashy I got it in the inside Market.
Anne it wasn't fluffy at all, the butcher had taken it's overcoat off.
 
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