SPORTING ANSWERS

Strongly flavoured rabbit

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Q I recently shot a few rabbits and gave a few of the smaller ones away, keeping the larger ones for myself. I think this may have been a mistake because the ones I cooked were strong in flavour and very tough. Can you advise?

A You are right. It is tempting to give away the bigger, tougher, older and more robustly flavoured bunnies and keep the smaller, sweeter, more tender ones for yourself. But it is worth looking at older, male, tougher and stronger-flavoured rabbits and working out a better way to deal with them.

First, I always remove the dark grey/brownish glands from beside the tail — that will lessen