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A bit more Continental than the original query stipulated, but... 'lepores uero si nouelli fuerint et ipsi sumendi in dulci piper habente, parum cariofili et gingiber, costum et spicam nardi uel folium' - Anthimus 'De obseruatione ciborum' 13. which translates, 'hare, if young, can be eaten in a sweet sauce made with pepper, a little clove and ginger, costmary, and spike or leaf of nard'. Hares were kept in enclosures - Varro 'On Agriculture' 3.12.3-4 and, were also fattened in hutches - Varro 'On Agriculture' 3.12.5 It was also considered suitable for those in ill health - Celsus 'On Medicine' 2.18.3, Caelius Aurelianus 'On Chronic Diseases' 1.23, Plutarch 'Cato the Elder' 23.6 Archestratus gives a recipe for rare hare lightly seasoned with salt - Athenaeus 'Deipnosophists' 9.399d-f If anyone's interested, all of the above was taken from: Grant, M. (translated and edited by) 1996. "Anthimus 'De obseruatione ciborum': On the observance of foods" Blackawton, Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books. ISBN 0907325 750 Cheers, Andy