Redbow
Senior Member
Any here ever made or eaten Rabbit salad? My Aunt used to make it she loved the stuff. Back in the day there were a lot of Cotton-Tail Rabbits around and we hunted them often. Aunt Rachel after skinning and cleaning the Rabbits would boil then debone the meat. She usually cooked two Rabbits for the salad.
Rabbit salad was made like most people make chicken salad but the Rabbit meat added a bit of a different flavor to it than chicken. Rabbit salad made a good sandwich as well and a good bit of it on your plate along side collards, turnip salad or boiled potatoes made for a good meal. Some folks preferred sweet taters with their Rabbit salad and fried corn bread.
I don't think today I could even find a wild Rabbit in our area to make a good bowl of Rabbit salad. Its been decades since I have eaten it but farm folks when I was growing up enjoyed it often during Rabbit hunting season. I would guess that Rabbit salad up where I was raised in Johnston County NC is more than likely a dish that has been lost to time and most folks have never eaten it. It was good stuff.
Rabbit salad was made like most people make chicken salad but the Rabbit meat added a bit of a different flavor to it than chicken. Rabbit salad made a good sandwich as well and a good bit of it on your plate along side collards, turnip salad or boiled potatoes made for a good meal. Some folks preferred sweet taters with their Rabbit salad and fried corn bread.
I don't think today I could even find a wild Rabbit in our area to make a good bowl of Rabbit salad. Its been decades since I have eaten it but farm folks when I was growing up enjoyed it often during Rabbit hunting season. I would guess that Rabbit salad up where I was raised in Johnston County NC is more than likely a dish that has been lost to time and most folks have never eaten it. It was good stuff.