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Off Topic => The Pub => Food & Drink => Topic started by: a lower gear on 03 February, 2013, 11:50:44 pm

Title: What to do with wabbit stock?
Post by: a lower gear on 03 February, 2013, 11:50:44 pm

Just jointed three wild wabbits. Tommorrow the meat will make two large raised pies. The carcases will, with vegetables,  make approaching a gallon of stock. We're used to making and using chicken, duck and goose stoc but where on the stock spectrum will wabbit stock lie? Should I include the giblets (the stomachs, intestines and bowels have been dumped) in the stock or not? Any particular recommendations for the use of the stock?

Title: Re: What to do with wabbit stock?
Post by: Kathy on 04 February, 2013, 03:07:01 am

Yes include the giblets.

The stock comes out richer than poultry, but not as thick as beef. I think I've used it as the starting point for making a reasonable French Onion Soup in the past. 

Title: Re: What to do with wabbit stock?
Post by: a lower gear on 06 February, 2013, 06:56:39 pm

Thanks for the hints! French onion soup sounds a very appropriate use.

It came out closer to beef stock than to poultry stock. Frozen half of it. Using a quarter (with some cider) to make a stew with the remnants of wabbit meat and a lot of veg.

The smaller gears found the wabbit pie a bit too strong tasting, though the elder did eat his portion... all the more for the grown-ups!