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Rabbit, Cream Of

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907).

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From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907), printed page 768, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Ingredients.
  2. — \ a Ib.
  3. of raw rabbit, \ of a pint of THICK white sauce (No.
  4. 221), i small egg.
  5. salt and pepper, \ a pint of brown sauce (No.
  6. 233).
  7. Method.
  8. — Chop the flesh of the rabbit finely, or pass it 2 or 3 times through a mincing machine, and pound it in a mortar until smooth.
  9. Work in the egg, add the white sauce, season well with salt and pepper, and pass the mixture through a fine sieve.
  10. Press lightly into 6 or 8 well-buttered bomb or other small moulds, steam gently until firm, and serve with the brown sauce strained over the dish.
  11. Time.
  12. — To steam the moulds, from 15 to 20 minutes.
  13. Average Cost, about 2S.
  14. Sufficient for 6 or 8 moulds.
  15. Seasonable from September to March.
  16. FECUNDITY OF THE RABBIT.
  17. — The reproduction of this animal has been the subject of wonder to all naturalists.
  18. It breeds seven times in the year, and generally begets seven or eight young ones at a time.
  19. If we suppose this to happen regularly for a period of four years, the progeny that would spring from a single pair would amount to more than a million.
  20. The rabbit, however, has many enemies, and its numbers are largely kept down by carnivorous animals of every description.
  21. As previously mentioned, in the time of the Roman power rabbits once infested the Balearic Islands to such an extent that the inhabitants were obliged to implore the assistance of a military force from Augustus to exterminate them.