rabbit food

[womb 1]

im new to shooting, hopefully you can give me some advice on eating rabbit, i know how to dress a rabbit but whats the best way to cook one in the field?

and are there certain rabbits you can't hunt and eat? what about diseases?

what do you guys do with them once you've killed them?

what can you use the skins for?

thx

[neil cooney 10,416]

I'm no chef but as for cooking in the field the only way of the top of my head is to wrap a young seasoned rabbit with some herbs and onion in tin foil and to put in a fire thats died down or beside a good fire. I suppose a stew is possible in the field as well. But I'm sure there's folk on here that have better advice than me.

At home a curry is nice. Lovely in fact.

But what's great to see is a novice like yourself with a good interest in useing what he shoots/kills. Enjoy.

[cometa300s 20]

im going to go camping frew the winter an i think i will be eating a few bunnies my self thanks for the info.

[val 0]

fryed on a pan

[pearcepestcontrol 1]

previously i have just laid a rabbit in stones beside the fire and has cooked ok, A spit can be fashioned from some green sticks, use green ones to help stop them burning scrape the bark off them first to get rid of the bitter taste. Unfortunatly rabbit is always a bit tough when cooked like this. For a better scoff wait till you get home. Then cut your rabbit into quarters, back legs,back,ribs etc, place in a baking tray add two whole unions chopped,sault pepper, 1 tea cup full of cooking oil 2 cups full of water.Cover in foil. Gas mark 4 2hours then turn meat over for another 2 hours, The water helps soften the meat up whilst roasting. When done correctly the meat will just fall off the bone and is delicious.

Ensure that you always eat plenty of veg with your rabbit as your body will suffer from the lack of nutrition

[doga 50]

out on one of these is a bit more acomadating than a tent but you can still take a cooking pot to do a stew,better than roasting mush leave to fall of the bone,dip ya bread.

[Tiny 7 1,694]

previously i have just laid a rabbit in stones beside the fire and has cooked ok, A spit can be fashioned from some green sticks, use green ones to help stop them burning scrape the bark off them first to get rid of the bitter taste. Unfortunatly rabbit is always a bit tough when cooked like this. For a better scoff wait till you get home. Then cut your rabbit into quarters, back legs,back,ribs etc, place in a baking tray add two whole unions chopped,sault pepper, 1 tea cup full of cooking oil 2 cups full of water.Cover in foil. Gas mark 4 2hours then turn meat over for another 2 hours, The water helps soften the meat up whilst roasting. When done correctly the meat will just fall off the bone and is delicious.

Ensure that you always eat plenty of veg with your rabbit as your body will suffer from the lack of nutrition

Why is rabbit got poor nutrition then??? cause i feed my lot a hell of alot of rabbits and always thought it was good meat..... T 7

[Hannah4181 260]

I'd like to know as well? I remember a very drunken conversation round a dinner table in France with friends, 1 of whom was a chef, specialising in game. I'm pretty sure he was banging on about there being no nutritional value in rabbit?? It was a while ago though and we'd had a lot to drink!!

Be interesting to find out the truth!

[cjw 1]

i once read in a shooting mag (carnt remember which) that if you on an island with nothing to eat but rabbit you would starve to dead weather it true or not i dont know

i,m not trying it either

 

cjw

Edited September 9, 2008 by cjw

[womb 1]

thanks for the replies all. im loving the caravan!

[biffo 0]

previously i have just laid a rabbit in stones beside the fire and has cooked ok, A spit can be fashioned from some green sticks, use green ones to help stop them burning scrape the bark off them first to get rid of the bitter taste. Unfortunatly rabbit is always a bit tough when cooked like this. For a better scoff wait till you get home. Then cut your rabbit into quarters, back legs,back,ribs etc, place in a baking tray add two whole unions chopped,sault pepper, 1 tea cup full of cooking oil 2 cups full of water.Cover in foil. Gas mark 4 2hours then turn meat over for another 2 hours, The water helps soften the meat up whilst roasting. When done correctly the meat will just fall off the bone and is delicious.

Ensure that you always eat plenty of veg with your rabbit as your body will suffer from the lack of nutrition

Why is rabbit got poor nutrition then??? cause i feed my lot a hell of alot of rabbits and always thought it was good meat..... T 7

 

 

something about taking more vitimins/enzymes to digest than the meat contains i think.

 

 

 

and as for the skins they need to be tanned really. im exploring the posibility of doing this with oak bark paste. u can use them for all sorts once theyre cleaned and tanned. a furry blanket perhaps or a furry cap.

[neil cooney 10,416]

The flesh alone of a rabbit is virtualy fat free and supposedly 100% protein. As a result eating only rabbit means your getting no fat, carbs or trace elements.

This is what I'm told, not sure if it's true.

Plummer said once that trappers in the Rockies were known to starve to death eating only rabbit.

But that was Plummer.

[DevonHunter 0]

Ray mears once said you would eat yourself to death on a diet of just rabbits.

[trappa 517]

I read somewhere that years ago in canada (i think) there was hunters dying of malnutrition on a diet of rabbit, and the wives didnt realise and where giving them more rabbit to eat, making the problem worse.

That said, its a great, cheap and tasty protein and integrated into todays diet its only going to do you good.

[Guest buster321c]

thanks for the replies all. im loving the caravan!