Casseroled Grouse with Marmalade

Name: Casseroled Grouse with Marmalade
Yield: Serve 1 per head
Ingredients: 1¼ cups stout or dark beer; ⅓ cup dry sherry; 3 tablespoons marmalade; 1 tablespoon butter; 4 onions; 2 old grouse; 6 ounces smoked bacon, cut into cubes (about 1 cup); sprig of thyme; salt and pepper; small bunch of young turnips, well scrubbed

Preparation info

Serve
1
per head

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Game Cookbook

By Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott

Published 2004

About

For this recipe you need a dark rich marmalade. If you are making your own, make sure you include black treacle or molasses or brown sugar. This is another method for using old grouse. I was aiming for a grouse and kumquat recipe, but it tasted of very little so I threw in the marmalade. Nowadays I omit the kumquats.

Ingredients

4 onions
2 old grouse
6 ounces smoked bacon, cut into cubes

Summer
Autumn

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F.

Chop the onions into quarters and put them into a heavy flameproof casserole dish, or other heavy pan for which there is a lid. Cut the grouse in half and add to the pan. Put in the bacon and thyme, and season with salt and pepper. Pour in the beer, b