Game

Question 1

What’s the season for pheasant?

Answer 1

Oct 1-Feb 1

Question 2

What’s the season for partridge?

Answer 2

Sept 1 - Feb 1

Question 3

What’s the season for woodcock?

Answer 3

Sept 1 (Scotland) /Oct 1 (England/Wales) - Jan 31

Question 4

What’s the season for grouse?

Answer 4

Aug 12 - Dec 10

Question 5

Why do we hang game meat?

Answer 5

To allow muscle fibres to tenderise and improves flavour

Question 6

How do you hang feathered game?

Answer 6

From the neck, guts in

Question 7

How do you hang furred game?

Answer 7

From the legs, guts out

Question 8

What are classic game accompaniments?

Answer 8

Bread sauce, game chips, pan sauce, fruit jelly, fried breadcrumbs

Question 9

What is game?

Answer 9

All wild animals and birds hunted for sport and cooked for the table

Question 10

Male and female game birds together

Answer 10

Brace

Question 11

To remove feathers

Answer 11

Pluck

Question 12

To remove guts of game birds/poultry

Answer 12

Draw

Question 13

To remove guts of animal

Answer 13

Paunch

Question 14

To remove guts from deer

Answer 14

Gralloch

Question 15

What is the ideal hanging condition for game?

Answer 15

Cool, dry, well ventilated, high up away from animals, away from flies/pests

Question 16

To thicken a sauce with blood

Answer 16

Jugged

Question 17

A stew of previously cooked meats

Answer 17

Salmis

Question 18

To thread strips of fat through lean meat

Answer 18

Lard

Question 19

To lay fat over a piece of lean meat

Answer 19

Bard