Ingredients: 15ml Dry Gin 15ml Sloe Gin 15ml Campari 15ml Sweet Vermouth A lemon twist or an orange wedge to garnish Method: Combine equal parts Dry Gin, Sloe Gin, Vermouth and Campari in a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a lemon twist or an orange wedge. Continue reading Sloe Gin Negroni
BY PAUL NEWALL We should watch on with some interest the events in Paris and Brussels where the mainstream media is informing us that a movement known as the Gilets jaunes are protesting a hike in fuel taxes as part of French president Emmanuel Macron’s green taxation programme resultant from the Paris Climate Accord. (Macron has just folded to their demands.) Looking beneath the surface there are … Continue reading Yellow Macron Folds
Ingredients: 1.2kg ready shortcrust pastry 2 tbsp olive oil 2 large red onions, peeled & diced 120g field mushrooms, sliced 120g smoked back bacon, diced 1kg mixed game meat (incl. venison, rabbit, pheasant & pigeon), boned & diced 1 clove garlic, peeled & crushed Zest & juice of 1 orange 70ml port 300ml chicken stock 1 tbsp redcurrant jelly 4 Bay leaves 30g plain Flour … Continue reading Shortcrust Game Pie
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN These last days there has been much talk of defending British Democracy. Whether in reference to another referendum or to publishing the full legal advice in relation to the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal. There has been talk too of a constitutional crisis. Sir Keir Starmer warned yesterday of a no confidence vote in the Government should May’s deal fail to garner sufficient … Continue reading Protect Democracy First
BY ANDREW MOODY Cannibal serial killer and psychiatric genius Hannibal Lecter first emerged in Thomas Harris 1980 novel Red Dragon and probably remains the most iconic literary character of the 20th century. It wasn’t until Jonathan Demme’s 1991 classic The Silence of the Lambs (the novel was released three years earlier) that Lecter gained rockstar status and became the most influential villain in American art … Continue reading Lecter’s Enduring Appeal
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and healthy this Advent Sunday, the first Sunday in Advent as we build up to Christmas. What is Advent? The word “Advent” comes from the Latin word for “coming”, and the season marks the countdown to Christmas. Churches observe this period by remembering the anticipation for the birth of Jesus, and preparing … Continue reading A Prayer for Advent
BY PAUL NEWALL When I read about the gender reassignment of the Doctor, I confess I let out an audible groan. Not because I couldn’t cope with one of my childhood favourites becoming a woman – I’d already been prepared for that eventuality by the “Doctors wife” episode in the Matt Smith era. The new show runner Chris Chibnall apparently made it a contractual issue … Continue reading It’s Just a Phase, Doctor
BY JONATHAN ALEXANDER On the 17th of last month, American missionary John Allen Chau instructed a fisherman he had paid to take him to the North Sentinel Island to leave him there. Later on the fisherman observed Chau’s body being dragged along by the inhabitants of the island and the following day his body was seen on the shore. It is illegal to to travel … Continue reading Leave Them Alone
Ingredients: 50ml gin 25ml lemon juice 25ml pear syrup 1 egg white Spiced Pear Syrup: 4 pears, cored and cubed 1 star anise plus more to serve 1 cinnamon, broken in half 250g caster sugar Method: To make the spiced pear syrup, put the ingredients in a pan with 250ml water and simmer for 20-30 minutes until the flavours have infused. Leave to cool. To … Continue reading Winter Spiced Pear Cocktail
