Dormouse

Large edible dormice were released at Tring Park in 1902 by Lord Rothschild, and the Romans regarded them as a great delicacy, fattening them in special earthenware pots (hence perhaps the treatment of the Dormouse at the Mad Hatter’s Tea-party). They should be stuffed with a strong pork forcemeat and baked. The small native dormouse of the cornfields is uncommon and protected by law.