Great British Bake Off 2015: How To Make Game Pie With Venison, Pheasant, Rabbit And Bacon

Great British Bake Off 2015: How To Make Game Pie

For Victorian Week on the Great British Bake Off, contestants had to muddle their way through recipes inspired by the past.

Mary Berry even dug out some antique recipe books to help/confuse the remaining bakers.

The contestants got to grips with game pie in the Signature Challenge, marvelled at a tennis cake recipe from the 1800s in the Technical and rustled up their own versions of Charlotte russe in the Show Stopper.

After winning Star Baker last week, Mat struggled with two out of the three challenges during Victorian Week and became the seventh baker to leave the Bake Off tent for good.

Tamal finally won Star Baker this week, despite the fact that Ian received a round of applause from his fellow competitors for the impressive crown he created to top his Show Stopper.

If you felt inspired by the episode, you can make your own Victorian-esque delight at home.

In the above video, Chef Jimenez from the Kent Cookery School demonstrates how to make an indulgent game pie featuring pheasant, venison, rabbit and bacon.

This recipe is a perfect warmer now the autumn weather is setting in, so invite your mates round and open a bottle of red to go with it.

We're sure that's what Queen Victoria would have done.

Serves: 8-10 people

Prep time: 45 mins

Cooking time: 2hrs 15mins

Ingredients:

500g diced venison shoulder

1 pheasant (meat only), diced

200g rabbit meat, diced

1 orange

1 tsp fresh thyme

1 tsp chopped rosemary

50ml rapeseed oil

1 pint chicken stock

25g plain flour

1 star anise

2 bay leaves

70ml port

250g chestnut mushrooms

2 slices smoked streaky bacon, diced

1 red onion

1 tbsp tomato puree

1kg short crust pastry

450g self-raising flour

225g suet

2550ml cold water

1 tsp English mustard powder

Pepper

Salt

1 egg

Watch the video above for full baking instructions. On your marks, get set, bake!

Stu, 35

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