Berkshire Harvest Supper

This eighteenth-century farmhouse dish is excellent and the recipe is interesting because it has a rather sophisticated sauce and garnish. This suggests that it was originally served at the harvest feast of a great house or at the home farm of a big estate, where the farmer’s wife had seen dishes prepared for the tables of the wealthy. Most early farmhouse recipes do not suggest any form of garnish. The original dish was made with joints of rabbit and hare (both, no doubt, driven out of the