Partridge Roasted in Vine Leaves

Vine leaves have the ability to impart their own special flavour to the food they enwrap. Elizabeth David has a fascinating receipt for cooking the commonest of mushrooms in a vine-leaf-lined pot, which makes them taste like the most sophisticated of fungi from the forest. They do no less for these lovely little birds. Vine leaves can now be bought in packets if you don’t have a vine, and I find the best fat