You've caught me at home alone, and I'm in the kitchen where I'm making a big pot of jack-rabbit stew. I haven't done this delicate dish in maybe 10 years, and I'm sort of feeling my way along. The ...

Salt and pepper the rabbit pieces and add to the skillet and brown with bacon and drip-pings Once the rabbit pieces are browned, place them in the crockpot with the bacon and re-maining drippings ...

Recipe adapted by Gayle B. Smith from a recipe in “Civil War Recipes, Receipts from the Pages of Godey’s Lady’s Book,” edited by Lily May Spaulding and John Spaulding, The University Press of Kentucky ...