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Grouse Soup
Preparation info
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 2015
‘But oh! my dear North, what grouse soup at Dalnacardoch! You smell it on the homeward hill, as if it were exhaling from the heather.’
— Christopher North: Noctes Ambrosianae.
Ingredients
- grouse
- celery
- peppercorns
- juniper berries (optional)
- salt
- cayenne pepper
Method
Slightly under-roast two old birds and remove all the flesh from the carcases. Set aside two breasts and pound the remaining flesh in a mortar. Put the bones into a goblet with a quart of good stock. (Failing stock, use water with a marrow bone or three or four rashers of streaky bacon.) Bring to the boil and skim. Add salt, six black peppercorns, two white peppercorns and, if liked, six or eig