Hare or Rabbit Soup

Ingredients

• 2 hares
• bacon
• 2 onions
• thyme
• parsley
• pepper
• salt
• cloves
• mace
• water
• 1 large spoonful butter
• 1 large spoonful brown flour
• 1 glass red wine

Instructions

1. Cut up two hares and put them into a pot with a piece of bacon, two onions chopped, and a bundle of thyme and parsley, which must be taken out before the soup is thickened.
2. Add pepper, salt, pounded cloves, and mace.
3. Put in a sufficient quantity of water and stew it gently three hours.
4. Thicken with a large spoonful of butter and one of brown flour, with a glass of red wine.
5. Boil it a few minutes longer, and serve it up with the nicest parts of the hares.
6. Squirrels make soup equally good, done the same way.