Game Cookery

Modern cookery techniques mean we can get more flavour from our meat, as José Souto shows with this tasty mixed game Thai red curry

When cooking with game, there are two trains of thought: classical and modern. For many people, the recipes of old are the ones that they keep going back to. Some work really well but most don’t, the reason being that these recipes were written in a time when most ingredients were hard to come by. Salt, pepper and sugar cost an arm and a leg, so recipes at this time were simple and worked with ingredients that had a fuller flavour, such as hung game instead of fresh, mutton instead of lamb and older boarish pork instead of young pigs.