Loin or Fillet of Venison with a Blackcurrant Liqueur Sauce

After the excesses of Jimmy MacNab’s mighty roast haunch of venison, I cooked for him a more modern and refined version of this game, based on traditional venison collops. He ate the lot, said nothing and poured me a dram of MacPhunn whisky.

Some centuries ago MacPhunn of Drip, a local laird of ancient lineage, fell upon evil times and took to stealing sheep. For this he was carried off to Inverary and hanged and his widow invited