Peasant-Style Roast Rabbit – Tessiner Kaninchenbra

First A Little History From The Pretty Booklet By Peter P. Riesterer:

Among the natives of Lake Maggiore, already around 1490, the two

the two islands of Brissago the name of ‘Rabbit Islands’ (Isole dei

Conigli), after ‘in the good old times’ the rabbits that were released on them

rabbits that had been abandoned on them multiplied to an immense army.

There is a curious popular legend about this, the truth of which is

Truth content must be provided with a question mark:

In a village by the lake, known as that of the ‘hundred stray cats’,

a well-to-do man is said to have invited friends on a Saturday to a

a roast hare or rabbit, which was followed by a political discussion.

followed by a political discussion. It is possible that the discussion was more about municipal politics

than about the pleasures of the table. What was served came from the islands. One

one day, after the beginning of the year, an old woman who was looking after the stray cats

cats and supplied them with milk, noticed that there were fewer and fewer cats, without

fewer and fewer, without any carcasses being found, nor any foxes

were found in the village. The matter was investigated and it is said to have seen..,

how one of the nobleman’s servants was luring cats into the house. The

Suspicion that these wandered into the pot was obvious. The

Stock of rabbits on the island had, because of the many hunters,

considerably decreased. Finally, it was agreed that in the kitchen of the

kitchen of the host rabbit roast with cat meat is stretched.

All of this together may have been thought by the