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    SPORTING ANSWERS

    Apr 07, 2021 5 minutes

    Make most of rook flavours

    GAMECOOKING

    Q How should we prepare rook for cooking? Do you have any suggestions for recipes we could try? We are a bit sick of the traditional rook pie.

    A I am a fan of eating rook — and jackdaws — but I do not limit this only to branchers in the spring.

    I used to live by a dairy farm or two before I moved to Scotland and every spring I would decoy rooks and jackdaws over the freshly cut silage fields as they came to forage for the crippled insect life left behind by the mower and forager.

    I suggest that you divide the shot birds by age, then pluck and roast the branchers a little like whole young pigeon. The older ones you can hang for a day or two, then breast

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