Name: Roast Grouse
Ingredients: grouse; currant jelly; gravy ingredients (as previously directed)

Roast Grouse

Ingredients

grouse
currant jelly
gravy ingredients (as previously directed)

Directions

Prepare

If stuffing, prepare dressing as for turkey.

Roast and serve

Roast the grouse for 30 minutes.
Serve with currant jelly.
Make gravy as previously directed.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Grouse: Is the main protein, cooked by dry roasting until done.
Currant jelly: Adds sweetness and acidity that balance the rich, gamey flavour of the birds.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.