Friday, June 19, 2009

Casserole of Creamed Rabbit

1 pint water
1 onion
1/4 tspn. mixed herbs
1/2 tspn. salt and pepper
1 tspn. lemon juice
Dice cooked kidney
Stick of celery
2 carrots
1 parsnip
1 dspn. parsley
Margarine for frying

Method: Wash rabbit well and soak in cold salted water for 1/2 hour. Place in saucepan and simmer until tender (about 1.1/2 hours or 12 minutes pressure cooked) with water. Dice finely the vegetables. Mix with kidney, season with salt and pepper and fry to a light brown. Remove.

Sauce:
1 oz. margarine
2 level tbspns. flour
1 cup milk
1 cup stock (strained from rabbit)
Salt and pepper
1 pinch dried herbs
1 dspn. chopped parsley
1 egg yolk

Method: Melt margarine, add flour and stir to a smooth paste. Add gradually the mixed milk and rabbit stock liquid. Continue stirring. Add salt and pepper, herbs, parsley and lastly beaten egg yolk. Mix flaked rabbit and vegetables and fold in sauce. Remove to casserole dish. Sprinkle with dry breadcrumbs and dot with butter. Cook for 15 - 20 minutes in moderate oven. Garnish with fresh parsley and potato crisps.

Source: contributed by B. White in Recipe Book Containing the Favourite Recipes of Members of the Payneham Methodist Women's Fellowship, 1961 (Payneham [Adelaide]: 1961), p.19.
"A BIRD IN THE BUSH IS WORTH TWO IN THE TOWN."