Trout in Port Wine Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as a starter (if using fillets)
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

  • About

Along with hunting and shooting, fishing is a popular sport for the upper classes at Downton, especially when the family decamps to Scotland for the season 3 Christmas special. Scotland was renowned for the quality of its fishing, which included not just salmon but also trout. Queen Victoria helped to popularize Scotland as a destination for the rich when she bought Balmoral and threw herself into all things tartan, and her successor, Edward VII, retained Balmoral as a royal retreat, ensuri