November 6, 2009 Food & drink 
In the middle of the beef crisis in the UK during the nineties, beef joints including the animal’s bones were banned. You couldn’t buy proper roasting joints anywhere. All beef was sold off the bone, and that was that. My dad had other ideas, and wasn’t about to be scared off by a minor inconvenience [...]
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A ‘ballotine‘ is a piece of meat that has been taken off the bone, rolled, stuffed and trussed to make a neat parcel of easily roasted meat. This ballotine involved a wild mallard duck, one of the smaller breeds, stuffed with a boned out partridge, which was in turn stuffed with an apricot and walnut [...]
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