Recipe for hot smoked pheasant You will need 1 large roasting tin 1 medium wire rack (to sit flat inside the tin) 1 handful fine smoking woodchip, such as apple wood Ingredients Pheasant 4 pheasant breasts, skin on or off 150ml milk 1 tsp salt 2 tsp sugar Rémoulade 1/2…
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How to smoke venison
Roe deer or wild boar can be smoked at home on a gas burner
Trout in a bag
Trout in a bag may not sound glamorous (say trout à la vapeur if you prefer) but it is one of the most simple of our best trout recipes. It can be tackled by a novice, but yet impressive enough to stand up to the job of a proper dinner…
How to make raspberry vinegar
Summer is here and for those of us with soft fruit in the vegetable garden, that probably means raspberries. Whilst raspberry jam is delicious, raspberry vinegar is a useful standby recipe that is reputed to soothe throats and you can also use it as a cordial. Here’s how to make…
Game, set, match! The best Wimbledon recipes
Pimms! Strawberries! Ice cream! Wimbledon is nearly upon us. Whether you’ve managed to bag tickets for the hallowed turf at The All England Lawn Tennis Club this year or will be watching at home, here’s our pick of the best Wimbledon recipes to get you in the spirit. View…
Henley Blazers – a riot of colour at Henley Royal Regatta
There are five days of the Season in which the gentleman is free to throw sar-torial caution to the winds. At Henley Royal Regatta he may dress like a parrot. On the clipped turf in front of the grandstand or in the Fawley Bar he may strut his stuff in…
The City of London’s livery companies
The Lord Mayor’s Show, an 800-year-old pageant chronicled by Pepys, painted by Canaletto and the first outdoor event ever to be televised live, is a fixture of English life. So too are the City of London livery companies whose colourfully robed members comprise a key part of this show, and…
Recipe: Blackcurrant sorbet with toasted brioche and clotted cream
A perfect summer pudding with rich colour and fresh taste. Sorbets are light and refreshing but still packed with flavour. (See Philippa’s recipe for blackcurrant clafoutis here.) Recipe for blackcurrant sorbet Serves 4 Ingredients 500g (171⁄2oz) blackcurrants 200ml (7fl oz) water 150g-200g (5oz-7oz) caster sugar Zest and juice 1 orange…
The history of estate tweeds
Shooting can attract the flashier type: those who arrive by helicopter, who shoot with a Fabbri Titanium gun and wear £350 alpaca socks. But if you really want to impress your host – or indeed your guests – there’s a classier way of showing off: turn up wearing your own…
British trained gundogs: the envy of the world
The first time I catch up with Charlie Thorburn, the gundog trainer to the 1%, he has just joined the M6 Toll and has been awake for a long time. Thorburn is on his way home to Perthshire from New York where he has been delivering a trio of fully…









