RABBIT

Put the back and the hind legs of one or two rabbits in an oven, covering
the same first with a layer of butter (half inch thick) and then with a
layer of French mustard, pepper and salt. Roast by a good fire for one
hour, baste often with the juice from the meat and the gravy.



HARE

To be put in a pan in the oven: sauce, butter, and a quarter of a pint of
cream, pepper, salt and some flour to thicken the sauce. Before the hare
is put in the oven, cover it with a thin piece of bacon, which must be
taken away before the hare is brought to table.

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RUM OMELETTE

This simple dish is much liked by gentlemen. Break five eggs in a basin,
sweeten them with castor sugar, pour in a sherry glassful of rum. Beat
them very hard till they froth. Put a bit of fresh butter in a shallow
pan and pour in your eggs. Let it stay on the fire just three minutes and
then slip it off on to a hot dish. Powder it with sugar, as you take it
to the dining-room. At the dining-room door, set a light to a big
spoonful of rum and pour it over the omelette just as you go in. It is
almost impossible to light a glass of rum in a hurry, for your omelette,