I was discussing venison with a co-worker, and I mentioned KYHillChick’s recipe for venison roast.  I realized when I went to send her a link that I had never posted it here.  Click on it to make it larger

Henry VIII’s Favorite Dish — Venison Roast

This is a favorite at our deer camp table and it was a favorite of Henry VIII.  I will warn you that Elizabethan cooking is odd if you have never tried it.  They were dealing with a different world, and it shows.  However, you will find this is great stuff.

This goes especially well with the Opening Day Feast, and our ceremonial toast:

“He that outlives this day and comes safe home will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d, And point a finger at his mounted antlers saying ‘These wounds! These wounds, I gave on Opening Day!’ For he today that sheds blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And Gentlemen all now in bed shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks that hunted with us on Opening Day.”

 

 

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