Ah, the power of a comma! This is a story meant to mislead until the twist at the end.  The story unfolds with the fox family tending their garden and declaring it’s time for their prize-winning rabbit stew.  As they list off all the ingredients they’ll need, the illustrations show the worried rabbit watching the foxes gather said ingredients.  And then in the end, we see that they’ve gathered all this lovely food for their favorite Rabbit, Stew, and his family too.  So it turns out Stew isn’t the main dish, but the recipients of this feast.