| A meat pie made with rabbit and chicken | |
| Type | Savoury pie |
|---|---|
| Main ingredients | Rabbit, onions, celery and carrots |
Rabbit pie is a game pie consisting of rabbit meat in a gravy with other ingredients (typically onions, celery and carrots) enclosed in a pastry crust. [1] Rabbit pie is part of traditional American and English cuisine. [2] It has recently[ when? ] found renewed popularity. [3]
Wild rabbit, as opposed to farmed, is most often used as it is easily and affordably obtained, and is described as more flavoursome. [4]
Along with rabbit meat, ingredients of the filling of a rabbit pie typically include onions, celery and carrots. [5] [6] [7] Other ingredients may include prunes, [7] [8] bacon [6] [7] and cider. [5] [6] Australian recipes for rabbit pie sometimes include the food paste Vegemite as an ingredient. [9]
Rabbit pie was a staple dish of the American pioneers. [10] Thanks to the increasing demand for wild and fresh ingredients, rabbit pie is often seen on the menus of fashionable restaurants and gastropubs. [11]
Two huge rabbit pies are part of traditional Easter celebrations in the English village of Hallaton, Leicestershire. [12]
In Beatrix Potter's children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit , Peter Rabbit and his siblings are warned "not to go into Mr. McGregor's garden" because their father "had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor." [13]
"Rabbit pie day" is ostensibly invoked in the song Run, Rabbit, Run .
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