Rabbit pie is a game pie consisting of rabbit meat in a

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with other ingredients (typically

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and

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s) enclosed in a

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crust. Rabbit pie is part of traditional American and

English cuisine English cuisine encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with England. It has distinctive attributes of its own, but is also very similar to wider British cuisine, partly historically and partly due to the import of i ...

. It has recently found renewed popularity.

Ingredients

Wild rabbit, as opposed to farmed, is most often used as it is easily and affordably obtained, and is described as more flavoursome.BBC Food
/ref> Along with rabbit meat, ingredients of the filling of a rabbit pie typically include

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s. Other ingredients may include prunes,

bacon Bacon is a type of Curing (food preservation), salt-cured pork made from various cuts of meat, cuts, typically the pork belly, belly or less fatty parts of the back. It is eaten as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), used as a central in ...

and

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Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

n recipes for rabbit pie sometimes include the food paste Vegemite as an ingredient.

In culture

Rabbit pie was a staple dish of the

American pioneer American pioneers, also known as American settlers, were European American,Asian American, and African American settlers who migrated westward from the British Thirteen Colonies and later the United States of America to settle and develop areas ...

s. Thanks to the increasing demand for wild and fresh ingredients, rabbit pie is often seen on the menus of fashionable restaurants and gastropubs. Two huge rabbit pies are part of traditional

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celebrations in the English village of Hallaton,

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Beatrix Potter Helen Beatrix Heelis (; 28 July 186622 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter ( ), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as '' ...

'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." "Rabbit pie day" is ostensibly invoked in the song '' Run, Rabbit, Run''.

References

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Ingredients

In culture

See also

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