Hunt Snowshoe Hare – Time for Hasenpfeffer Stew?

March is the perfect time to get out and hunt Snowshoe Hare (Lepus Americanus). 

Snowshoe Hare, Shirleys Bay.jpg

It is mating season! And just like deer in the rut; The chase is on!! Many hunt the Hare’s with dogs. I grew up hunting them one on one in thick fir stands. Below is the  New Hampshire Wildlife Profile and Hunting dates and Units. In Canada, the Snowshoe Hare is a sought after food source. In Newfoundland for example over 1.5 million are consumed each year!

https://wildlife.state.nh.us/hunting/small-game-season.html 

https://wildlife.state.nh.us/wildlife/profiles/snowshoe-hare.html

As a teen it was relatively easy for me to bag a snowshoe hare with shotgun in the New Hampshire’s North Country but few in my family really knew how to prepare it. 

The German Inspired Dish Hasenpfeffer is a great way to prepare a delicious meal with wild hare/rabbit meat that you hunted and brought to the table. 

A recipe that I like is on website: https://honest-food.net/hasenpfeffer-recipe-dumplings/

The key to this recipe, I believe, is the Marinade. Follow the ingredients well. 

You can do the dumplings on the side or do what I do, use some wide egg noodles. The sauce uses sour cream. I make the sauce with some beef bullion and mushrooms, a rue, like Stroganoff. Wow! The hare meat should be very tender and almost fall off the bone.

Another side to try is German Spaetzle here… https://platedcravings.com/authentic-easy-german-spaetzle-recipe/

Good Hunting! Good Eating!

 

 

 

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About Ed Hale

I am an avid hunter with rifle and Bow and have been hunting for more than 50 years. I have taken big game such as whitetail deer, red deer, elk, Moose and African Plains game such as Kudu, Gemsbok, Springbok, Blesbok, and Impala and wrote an ebook entitled African Safari -Rifle and Bow and Arrow on how to prepare for a first safari. Ed is a serious cartridge reloader and ballistics student. He has earned two degrees in science and has written hundreds of outdoor article on hunting with both bow and rifle.