Mulligatawny
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igenlodeThe mulligatawny soup made with remains of a rabbit -- in my case, rabbit stock and some shredded roast rabbit -- proved to be extremely successful. I didn't have any curry powder, so I went the whole hog of cooking up ginger and garlic with my onion at the start and adding chopped chilli and cumin and coriander, and it was very tasty.
I served it alongside a bowl of "well-boiled rice" as recommended in the recipe, presumably a nod to its Indian origins, which served to make more sustaining what was really only suitable as a starter -- the small proportion of meat isn't bulked out by anything bar onion and apple, and I hadn't thickened it with flour as directed because it already seemed pretty thick. Perhaps I should have.
I note that in the recipe for a plum mulligatawny in my 1960s cookbook the rice is cooked in the actual soup, which is a less unexpected procedure!
I served it alongside a bowl of "well-boiled rice" as recommended in the recipe, presumably a nod to its Indian origins, which served to make more sustaining what was really only suitable as a starter -- the small proportion of meat isn't bulked out by anything bar onion and apple, and I hadn't thickened it with flour as directed because it already seemed pretty thick. Perhaps I should have.
I note that in the recipe for a plum mulligatawny in my 1960s cookbook the rice is cooked in the actual soup, which is a less unexpected procedure!
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Date: 2021-04-25 12:27 am (UTC)Our old butcher used to be able to get rabbit on request, and put a handwritten notice up in the door from time to time saying that he had some in.
Supermarkets only sell packaged meat, although they seem to have branched out into exotic packages. I see Sainsbury's are advertising "Duck, game & venison" online, although if you look at the actual products included it's almost all farmyard duck, plus a single shrink-wrapped guinea-fowl (and I don't think those live wild anywhere in England!) and some farmed venison products, none of which is legally wild game at all...
People traditionally seem to complain about 'the number of bones' in rabbit, but from my experience so far I'm not very clear why. They are about the same size as chickens and have the same basic structure -- rib-cage, tiny 'wings' (forelegs) and big thighs (back legs) -- so the only real difference I can think of is that maybe they've got longer backs and more spine? I haven't been conscious of encountering a large number of bones, and they're all in very predictable places, e.g. attached to the ribcage or down the middle of the limbs.