Availability/hanging

Now that Eastern European venison is more available, both the price and the demand for Scottish venison by Germany has dropped. Since the end of World War II, West Germany has imported the largest amount but there is now an opportunity for more to be sold in Scotland. It can be found on a few supermarket shelves, but fishmongers or butchers with a game licence are still the most reliable sources. Continental demand has encouraged a Continental system of ‘filleting out’ individual muscles so that a sinew-free piece of meat is produced which does not require a long slow wet cooking method to tenderize.