Rabbit surprise

My emergency rabbit turned out to be a great success -- so great that I have only just finished eating the last of the leftovers from the rabbit flamande, in all its different permutations! -- so I set off to purchase another one, at full price this time, proving that introductory offers can pay off for the vendor.

This one was not frozen when I got it, thus demonstrating that the carcases had indeed frozen solid on the stall in the snow-filled market square!

Since I am no longer suffering from an acute shortage of vegetables I was able to look up some of the various other rabbit recipes in my possession (in fact I have just acquired some charming pre-war recipe booklets which give further assorted methods of cooking rabbit, including a mulligatawny soup which specifies 'leftover remnants of rabbit' as the meat to be used!) I was intrigued by Marguerite Patten's post-war rationing recipe for 'rabbit surprise', but certainly didn't expect the result to be quite as successful as it proved to be; the (very un-English) ginger and hint of hot chilli in the rice make the perfect accompaniment to the slow-casseroled rabbit joints. I think the result is basically a rabbit paella.



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