G'day Honda, here's a quick and simple recipe for rabbit.
Firstly make sure you soak your rabbit in salt water overnight.Take it out dry it with paper towel and then cut into meium size piece. Pre heat your camp oven add some butter or oil and proced to brown the rabbit pieces.
then remove the rabbit when browned add 1 onion (chopped) and 2 carrots cut into pieces add more butter to saut'ee add 2 table spoons of flour and stir until you get colour (browned) and it thickens.
Add 1 cup of red wine and 1 cup chicken stock making sure rabbit and ingredients are just covered with liquid. Then add 250 grams of bacon pieces or stripsand fresh herbs (rosemary, garlic, sage any fresh herbs experiment) then cook slow until rabbit is tender. add salt and pepper to season and add potatoes as well if you like. thicken with cornflour if needed but it should thicken in its own juices. to reduce liquid in camp oven cook with the lid off for 20 minutes.
Hope this is ok let me know how it goes.
Astroboy.

Honda

You are right about the Furphy.  They have been made in China for about 6 years now.  Both Bedourie and Hillbilly are made in Australia.

I have both but have been using a Bedourie for over 25 years.  You will see it plenty of times throughout my website and I fully recommend them.  Their website is http://www.southern-metal-spinners.com.au/

Photo below shows a batch of pumpkin fruit muffins straight out of a Bedourie that you can see in the background.

I am on holidays in Queensland at the moment and will post a recipe or two for rabbit when I get home.

Cheers


Derek

thanks for the reply derek.the pumpkin fruit muffins look so so good, makes my mouth water.with the bedourie oven does the lid seal properly so ash cant come in.i noticed on the net the hillbilly lid has a wide brim .do you have a hillbilly?

I think I have visited every camping shop, second hand shop and collectables shop between the Victorian Border and central Queensland.  While I have seen a few camp ovens, good cast iron is hard to come by these days.

I paid $204.00 for my old 15" Furphy.  Started bidding on a 10" Furphy on eBay not that long back but it ended up going for $290.00.

If you see any at anytime, and the price is reasonable then grab them because they will be worth big dollars in the future.

Honda, the lid of the Bedourie is like a round cake tim that fits down over the camp oven and the coals sit on top.  No way can the ash fall inside unless you tip it in when lifting it off.  The other good thing about the Bedourie is that the lid makes a great frying pan turned up the other way. I was recently talking to Bill at Southern Metal Spinners and he is developing a Bedourie with a lip on top to make it easier to keep the coals on it.  Will let you all know how that goes.

Yes I have a Hillbilly but have only ever used it with the gas heat burner.  Have seen them used with heat beads.  The lid is like a big pie plate so coals cannot fall off it.  See the photo.  One on the right is working on gas and the one on the left has heat beads on top.  By the way, have never seen a hillbilly with coals underneath.

I may be biased towards the Bedourie because it was the first camp oven I ever owned and I learned to cook in it.

Cheers


Derek

hi derek. the camp oven pics look lovely.more so the food inside. im not sure as to which oven ill buy first.but would like to have the 3.cast, hillbilly and bedourie.the hillbilly looks deeper than bedourie,is that true to say.even if i dont make a nice meal,ill sure make lotsa charcole. with the recipes i get on here i print off and put into a folder.