Sunday, June 27, 2010

What really happened in Mr. Mcgregors garden!


The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit.  The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Moore, in 1893.
Peter Rabbit, his sisters Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, and his mother are rabbits who dress in human clothing and generally walk upright on their hind legs, though they live in a rabbit hole under a fir-tree. The tale really begins when Mother Rabbit forbids her children: Don't go into Mr McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there, he was put into a pie by Mrs McGregor!  However, while Mrs. Rabbit is shopping and the girls are collecting blackberries, Peter sneaks into the garden. There, he gorges on vegetables until he gets sick, and is then chased about by Mr. McGregor. When Peter loses his jacket and his shoes, Mr. McGregor uses them to dress a scarecrow --
What really happened in Mr. Mcgregors garden!
RABBIT STEW that's what --
Serves: 4 --  Cooking time: 7.5 hrs
Ingredients:
2 Rabbits quartered (waist coats removed)
2 Rabbit Livers
2 Red Onions
Rind and Juice of 1 Orange
1 small bag dried apricots
2 cloves garlic
Chicken stock
1 T raspberry jam
Salt + Pepper
Flour to coat
Slosh of tabasco
Good Glug of Worcestershire sauce
Pinch of Mixed herbs
5 Carrots Sliced
1 T Olive oil
2 t Mustard powder
Method: Place Rabbits, Flour and Salt and Pepper in freezer bag and shake to coat rabbits. Mince Livers and brown with rabbits, onions and garlic in a pan.  Add all ingredients to the slow cooker and cook for 7 hours, stirring every hours.  Serve with couscous, fried red cabbage and brussels sprouts!  





Just kidding! Peter narrowly escapes the garden and returns to his mother exhausted and ill.  And all is well when she puts him to bed with a dose of camomile tea while his sisters (who have been good little bunnies) enjoy bread and milk and blackberries for supper.
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

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