Showing posts with label boars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boars. Show all posts

Planning Christmas Dinner?


The Old Foodie Blog, in their Vintage Christmas Recipes, lists a yummy sounding dish.

How to cook a wild boar's head, also how to prepare a sauce for it.
A wild boar's head should be boiled well in water and, when it is done, laid on a grate and basted with wine, then it will be thought to have been cooked in wine. Afterwards make a black or yellow sauce with it. First, when you would make a black sauce, you should heat up a little fat and brown a small spoonful of wheat flour in the fat and after that put good wine into it and good cherry syrup, so that it becomes black, and sugar, ginger, pepper, cloves and cinnamon, grapes, raisins and finely chopped almonds. And taste it, however it seems good to you, make it so.

If you would make a yellow sauce.
Then make it in the same way as the black sauce, only take saffron instead of the syrup and put no cloves therein, so you will also have a good sauce.

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Wild pigs in Hong Kong pose pesky problem to villagers

The Year of the Pig is upon us but not everyone is welcoming the porcine animal, which represents conspicuous consumption and good fortune to the Chinese.

Hong Kong villages are being plagued by wild pigs being a nuisance, and destroying crops.

Just a distance away from the residential district of Fanling, a village in the New Territories has a pesky problem.

Head Villager Jody Au-Yeung says her village has suffered an alarming rate of wild boar sightings, and claims six pet dogs have died as a result.

Villagers have had their crops destroyed.

"They step all over, dig up and destroy some of my flowers," says a flower farmer.

It has left some feeling unsafe, and there've been requests that the authorities do more to eradicate the problem.