Christmas Day Lunch

Christmas Day Lunch 2009

On arrival

Wood-oven baked fresh bread

Home-made Christmas nibbles

Starters

Smoked haddock and Tewkesbury mustard chowder

Wiltshire pork, rabbit and herb country terrine with Ruth’s pickled onions

Lightly smoked pan-seared pigeon breast with bacon and pumpkin purée

Caramelised onion and Cerney goat’s cheese crostini with a crispy beetroot
and hedgerow salad

Brixham crab cocktail with garlic mayonnaise and a tomato and tarragon reduction

Mains

Honey-roast Madgett’s Farm free-range roast turkey with roasted Duchy potatoes
and Winter Cotswold vegetables, bread sauce, stuffing and gravy

Individual Yorkshire Beef Wellington baked with Tibberton mushrooms and Blue Heaven cheese, caramelised chicory and jus

Roasted haunch of venison with braised red cabbage, Jerusalem artichoke purée
and a bacon sauce

Whole steamed Bibury trout with lemon thyme new potatoes, confit tomatoes
and a parsley and caper sauce

Roasted butternut squash stuffed with chestnuts, mushrooms, leeks and bread sauce

Desserts

Cotswold Christmas pudding with damson brandy custard

Treacle and pear tart with crème fraiche ice-cream

Hayles Farm apples in a latticed pie with candied walnuts and clotted cream

Warm chocolate and chestnut torte with hot chocolate sauce, glass biscuit
and plum ice-cream

Selection of Cotswold cheeses with apple chutney and home-made crispbread

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Coffee and mince pies

As all our fresh ingredients are sourced locally, we
may need to make changes to the above menu according to availability.

Dining in a 30 Mile Food Zone