Terrine de Lapin de Madame Milbert

Madame Milbert’s rabbit terrine

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    10–12

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      35 min

Appears in
The Cooking of Burgundy and the Lyonnais

By Anne Willan

Published 1987

  • About

Fifty yards from my kitchen, Madame Milbert’s rabbits are munching away in the barn. Bred by the dozen in brown or white, dark or blue-eyed, flop-eared or perky, they must reconfirm Mendel’s laws of heredity several times a year. On our family table they need to be disguised, hence the popularity of this terrine.

Ingredients

  • 1.5 kg (3 lb) rabbit, jointed
  • 350 g (12

Method

With a sharp-pointed knife, cut the meat from the legs of the rabbit, discarding the sinews. Cut the saddle meat from the backbone, keeping it in two pieces and then remove the fillets from under the ribs.

Finely chop one slice of bacon and fry it until the fat runs. Slice the saddle meat and fillets in thick strips, and