Real Brunswick Stew

[phlawless]

I have a new source for fresh rabbit and I wondered if anyone has used it to make traditional brunswick stew.

Does one use the whole rabbit?

Anyone with experience or info please reply.

[ScorchedPalate]

Hmm, I thought brunswick stew was traditionally made with squirrel.

[Dave the Cook]

We used rabbit in the stew for the first Pig Pickin'. (The development notes are here.)

In preparation for this year's stew, Dean and I made the executive decision to leave the rabbit out. Domestic rabbit simply doesn't hold up flavorwise, and it didn't make much of a stock, either. If you have access to wild bunnies or hare, however, I think you'd have different, and probably better, results.

[Varmint]

Phlawless had some hare-brained idea (haw!) that simply because it was someone's birthday weekend that she couldn't come to the pig pickin'. Thus, she'll be missing out on what could be the single best example of Brunswick Stew ever created. Ever. I might be able to convince her to come. It'll take a bribe of many loco pops, however.

[tryska]

y'all need to watch more PBS.

I learned from a Georgia Public Broadcasting documentary specifically on this subject that real Brunswick Stew is made with a pigs head.

that's what gives it it's deliciously velvety texture. or so I've been told.

So Varmint - i hope you're saving that hog's head to go into the stewpot.

I'll see if i can track down that documentary....

[tryska]

found it....

http://www.stanwoodward.com/GeorgiaBrunswickStew.html

Incidentally I believe this Film-maker is a man after our own hearts....