Rabbit Pie Recipe
Rabbit Pie Recipe with Rabbit, Flaky Pastry, Ham or Bacon, Butter, Onions and Stock.
INGREDIENTS
1 Rabbit
8 oz (225g) Flaky Pastry
8 oz (225g) Ham or Bacon
2 oz (25g) Butter
Salt & Pepper
4 oz (100g) Onions
1/2 pint (300ml) Vegetable Stock
A Little Milk
METHOD
Cut the rabbit into joints and the ham or bacon into very thin slices. Melt the butter in a saucepan , and fry the ham and rabbit joints in it for five minutes together with the onions. Sprinkle well with salt & pepper, add the stock, and simmer gently for forty five minutes.
Leave until cold. Then fill a pie dish with the meat. Add the stock, cover with the pastry, and bake in a moderate oven (375F, 190C, Mark 4) for about one and a half hours. Brush over with the milk when nearly done.
Enough for 6 people.
Based on the Rabbit Pie recipe in:
Home Cookery Illustrated
by Anon (Odhams Press, Circa 1955).