Rabbit Fried with Onions

Rabbit was highly esteemed and frequently eaten by rich and poor until our own times when it has lost favour. From the Middle Ages until the eighteenth century, domestic rabbits (known as coneys) were kept in enclosed warrens and often taken with nets and fattened in hutches for a week or two before being killed for table. The poor man trapped all the wild rabbits he dared to take and the farmer, wishing to protect his crops, enjoyed the sport of shooting them.

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