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and were caught eating my brassicas!

here's a recipe that's all but free,all the main ingredients can be found free in the hedgerows and woods at this time of year.

You will need:

2 fresh rabbits  

4 good hand fulls of fresh nettle tops

a good sized bunch of wild garlic:  

a small handful of wild violet leaves:

a little seasoned flour
a little cooking oil or lard
2 pints of chicken stock or 4 oxo's.


prepare yer rabbits and joint them:


then toss them in the seasoned flour til browning,place them in a casserole dish,now deglase the pan with the stock and set to oneside.wash and chop the nettlesand violet leaves,(violet leaves will thicken the stock as arrow root or cornflour would) add to the casserole dish,chop the whites of the wild garlic and then add too including the garlic flowers.
 now pour the stock over and place in a moderate oven for 2  1/2 hours.
serve with a salad of young primrose leaves , cowslip leaves , dandelion leaves and hawthorn shoots,some boiled bull rush roots would be a free potato substitute. its a good free meal!
as with all wild gathered foods be sure you know that you have gathered the correct plants.