Actually, that might be very good. When I was a child (long after the
Civil War <smile>) we had rabbit quite often. My Dad and Mom
would go hunting at dusk along the country roads and always came
home with 3 or 4. Mom fried them like chicken. They didn't shoot
jackrabbits though - only cottontails.
I have my grandparents 10-da. journal telling about their journey
from Colorado to KS in May 1910. They were in a wagon, with 4
horses and a dog. In the evenings my Dad who was a teenager at
the time hunted for rabbits along the trail and that was their meal.
They left their Iowa home in the Fall of 1909 to homestead land in
Colorado, thinking it'd be warmer weather than the winters in Iowa.
That winter the temperature got down to 45 degrees below zero.
Come Spring they sold out and moved to a warmer clime.
After I grew up and was married I refused to eat any more rabbits or
squirrels!
juanita
Here's what we had for supper.
Elaine (who is just kidding)
>From the CWi Civil War Cookbook
Over 550 Authentic Civil War Recipes
RABBIT SALAD
1 rabbit, boiled
Lettuce
Dressing:
yolks of six eggs, hard boiled
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
1/4 c. vinegar
1/4 c. prepared mustard
4 tbs. oil, olive or vegetable
Bread and butter, crackers, grated cheese
Having a fine young rabbit boiled very tender, mince it fine from
the bones. Mince an equal portion of lettuce, which should be of
the loaf lettuce, that heads up, and is quite white and frangible
[breakable]; mix them together, and set them by till the dressing
is prepared. Mash very fine the yolks of six boiled eggs, add to
it a tea-spoonful of salt, a tea-spoonful of pepper, half a gill
of vinegar, half a gill of made mustard, and four table-spoonfuls
of sweet oil. Mash and stir it together till it becomes very
smooth; then put it over the rabbit and lettuce, stir it up
lightly together with a fork, put it in a dish of suitable size,
and send with it to table plates of bread and butter, crackers,
grated cheese, &c. It is a supper dish, and seldom eaten at any
other meal. Do not prepare it till just before you sit down to
table, that it may be as fresh as possible. Rabbits make a very
good pie, prepared like a chicken pie.
~~From The Kentucky Housewife by Mrs. Lettice Bryan, 1839
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