Stewed Rabbit

Ingredients

1/2 c flour
1 ts salt
1/4 ts pepper
3 domestic
2 wild rabbits up
1 onion
6 slices bacon
2 carrots
2 garlic
1 bay leaf
1 1/4 c water
3/4 c dry wine
1 tb packed brown sugar
1/2 ts rosemary leaves
1/2 ts paprika
1 tb cornstarch
2 tb water

Instructions

Mix flour, 1/2 ts salt and pepper. Coat rabbit with flour mixture. Cook bacon to crisp; drain and crumble. Put 2 tb bacon fat in dutch oven and cook rabbit in hot fat over medium heat turning occasionally, until brown. Add onions, carrots, garlic, bacon and bay leaf. Mix 1/4 c water, the wine, brown sugar. 1/2 ts salt, the rosemary and paprika; pour over rabbit. Heat to boiling and reduce heat. Cover and simmer until rabbit is tender; about 1 to 1 1/2 hrs. Remove bay leaf. Remove rabbit and vegetables, keep warm. Mix cornstarch and 2 tb cold water and stir into liquid in th3e dutch oven. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir one minute. Pour sauce over vegetables and rabbit. 380 calories per serving.