Rabbit pie

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Rabbit pie
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A meat pie made with rabbit and chicken
Type Savoury pie
Main ingredients Rabbit, onions, celery and carrots

Rabbit pie is a game pie consisting of rabbit meat in a gravy with other ingredients (typically onions, celery and carrots) enclosed in a pastry crust. [1] Rabbit pie is part of traditional American and English cuisine. [2] It has recently[ when? ] found renewed popularity. [3]

Contents

Ingredients

Wild rabbit, as opposed to farmed, is most often used as it is easily and affordably obtained, and is described as more flavoursome. [4]

Along with rabbit meat, ingredients of the filling of a rabbit pie typically include onions, celery and carrots. [5] [6] [7] Other ingredients may include prunes, [7] [8] bacon [6] [7] and cider. [5] [6] Australian recipes for rabbit pie sometimes include the food paste Vegemite as an ingredient. [9]

In culture

Rabbit pie was a staple dish of the American pioneers. [10] Thanks to the increasing demand for wild and fresh ingredients, rabbit pie is often seen on the menus of fashionable restaurants and gastropubs. [11]

Two huge rabbit pies are part of traditional Easter celebrations in the English village of Hallaton, Leicestershire. [12]

In Beatrix Potter's children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit , Peter Rabbit and his siblings are warned "not to go into Mr. McGregor's garden" because their father "had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor." [13]

"Rabbit pie day" is ostensibly invoked in the song Run, Rabbit, Run .

It is eaten by the Romani minority. [14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Albala, Ken (2010). The lost art of real cooking : rediscovering the pleasures of traditional food, one recipe at a time. New York: Penguin Group. ISBN   978-0-399-53588-8 . Retrieved 20 January 2012.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  2. ↑ Aunt Chloe (May 1888). Louisa, Knapp (ed.). "The Practical Housekeeper". The Ladies' Home Journal. V (6). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Cyrus H. K. Curtis. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  3. ↑ Gates, Stefan (2005). Gastronaut : adventures in food for the romantic, the foolhardy, and the brave. Orlando: Harcourt. pp. 123–124. ISBN   0-15-603097-7 . Retrieved 20 January 2012.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  4. ↑ BBC Food
  5. 1 2 Smith, Liz. "BBC—Food—Recipes—Rabbit pie" (PDF). A Taste of my Life. British Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  6. 1 2 3 Stephanie Alexander (18 October 2011). "Mary's rabbit pie". Sydney Morning Herald . Fairfax Media . Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  7. 1 2 3 Delia Smith. "Old-English Rabbit Pie". Delia Online. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  8. ↑ Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant (11 February 2009). "The Cook and the Chef—Rabbit Pie". The Cook and the Chef . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 8 March 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
  9. ↑ Mason, Anne (2 June 1959). "Make a Savoury Pie for Dinner". The Age . Fairfax Media . Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  10. ↑ "Dame Delicacies Draw Hundreds to Old Church". The News and Courier . 4 November 1975. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  11. ↑ Lutrario, Joe (22 November 2007). "Dining Royal style". Morning Advertiser . Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  12. ↑ Jensen, Gregory (5 April 1958). "Rabbit Pie and Kisses—England's Easter Customs Strange". Toledo Blade . Block Communications . Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  13. ↑ "Art: Peter's Miss Potter". TIME . 24 January 1944. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  14. ↑ "How Romani Gypsies Are Cooking Up Resistance in the UK".
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