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George Shirley

wrote:
> A recipe calls for "front quarters of a hare". I can get a whole hare
> in a local deli meat market, but I don't know what parts of the hare
> the recipe wants. Is it just a neck and brest (first quarters of
> hare's body, right ?), or the culinary phrase "front quarters of a
> hare" means something else ? Please help.
> Thank you.
>
A front quarter is part of the back, the foreleg, shoulder, part of the
breast. Imagine a rabbit cut in half just aft of the shoulders, then
that front part is cut in half down the mid line. Each of those halves
would be a fore quarter or front quarter.