Roast Rabbits.
Skin, clean with great care, and wash a pair of fat rabbits—or hares—stuff with a force-meat of crumbs and chopped fat salt pork, seasoned with onion, thyme, pepper and salt. Sew up with fine thread; bind the legs to the body in a kneeling posture, and lay in the dripping-pan. Pour over them a cupful of boiling water, and cover as you did the chickens yesterday. Baste with butter twice, with their own gravy twice, and twice, at last, with butter. Just before you take them up, dredge with flour and give a final baste with butter. Dish when you have clipped and drawn out the threads. Thicken and season the gravy, and pour into a gravy-boat.