LEPRE IN AGRODOLCE
A typical Italian way of cooking
game. The chocolate sounds
alarming, but serves to sweeten
and darken the sauce, and in the
blending of the whole the taste of
chocolate does not obtrude.
A hare, cut up, vinegar, butter, onion,
ham or bacon, sugar, chocolate,
almonds, raisins, stock, and seasoning.
Wash the pieces of hare in
vinegar, sauté them in butter with
the sliced onion, ham or bacon and
seasoning, and add the stock.
Simmer slowly. Half fill a
wineglass with sugar, and add
vinegar until the glass is three-