The recipe is about right but not completely. The real Hasenpfeffer is made from the european "hare", translated in german "hasen". This animal is like the american "jack rabbit", closely related to the rabbit. It has long ears and is like a stretch version of a rabbit. Do NOT use vinegar but use red table wine instead otherwise the stew will be too acid. Do not use fresh hare, let it age for a couple of days. I won't tell you how they use to do this in europe but believe me, it's important. We did use the entire cleaned-out hare minus head and let it simmer until the meat fell of the bones. Approx. 4 hours. No sour cream either. Bon appetit.

Going to cook this up this coming Sunday. I will add more to this post after we cook it up. Looking forward to this. Just got done with cutting up the Rabbit and letting it take a two day bath in the vinegar solution. I hope to give this a few more stars. I will know very soon. 01/22/2012 is when we (my friend John) cooked this dish up. I have to agree that it was way too much vinegar for both of us. I guess I would cut back to a 1 cup maybe 2 cups max and increase the amount of water. One thing that helped out is once I put up the leftovers I put it in a container that allowed it to soak in the vinegar/sour cream sauce and the sour cream help mellow out the vinegar a bit more. I wish the sauce was thicker and that it would cling to the rabbit better and that might also cut the vinegar flavor when it's hot. Other than that I liked the rabbit and this was the first time that I have tasted rabbit. I will make this again and cut back on the vinegar and use oil to brown up the rabbit instead of the butter.

This was a great recipe. It was a bit on the vinegar side, even after cooking and all, which was so-so. But it was delicious with the sauce in this recipe. Had it with a '97 Riesling, which was a bit too sweet for it. Get something very dry for this recipe.

quite similar to my mother's recipe. being as how i no longer hunt, i have substituted skinless chicken thighs. much less expensive than store boughten rabbit. flavor and texture are similar. thanks

Taste just like my mother used to make. My husband had never tried it before and he was skeptical, but he loved it. It also made good sandwiches with the leftovers.