Christmas Party Menu 2011

3 Courses £32.50

Starters

Gamekeepers soup with barley, thyme and chestnuts

Beetroot & horseradish cured salmon with new potatoes and capers

Guinea fowl, Savoy cabbage and cured ham terrine

with truffle dressing and toast

Williams pear & Hitchin Blue cheese salad

with celery hearts and pickled walnuts

Warm smoked ham hock salad with salsify and a poached organic egg

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Mains

Chargrilled Belted Galloway beef rump

with woodland mushrooms, tarragon and bone marrow

Wellington of roasted heritage squash, red onion, chard

and Wobbly Bottom Farm goat’s cheese

East coast wild seabass fillet with whipped celeriac,

Southwold shrimps and capers

Roasted free-range Temple Farm bronze turkey with all the trimmings

Grilled Knebworth Estate venison loin cutlets

with golden beetroot mash and red currant gravy

A selection of seasonal vegetables & potatoes

will be served with the main course

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Desserts

Clementine and chocolate Eton mess

Bramley apple & rhubarb crumble with vanilla ice cream

Wobbly Bottom creamy Lancashire cheese with oatcakes and chutney

Christmas pudding with shipwrecked brandy custard

Lemon sorbet with English vodka

Includes tea or coffee served with chocolate-dipped walnuts

Slight changes may occasionally have to be made to the menu

due to the nature of sourcing wild & artisanal produce

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Christmas Day Feast Menu 2011

Adults - £95.00        Children - £45.00

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Prosecco & cranberry fizz on arrival

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Jerusalem artichoke & woodland mushroom soup

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Starters

Each table will receive a selection of;

Roasted quince salad

With chicory, Hitchin Blue cheese and pickled walnuts

Home-cured organic salmon

With wild watercress, new potatoes and capers

Gamekeepers terrine

With hedgerow jelly and soda bread crisps

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Mulled wine sorbet

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Mains

Each table will receive a selection of

Roasted Temple Farm free-range bronze turkey

With hazelnut & thyme stuffing, pigs in blankets

and cranberry & port sauce

A selection of seasonal vegetables, potatoes,

roast gravy & bread sauce

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Desserts

Each table will receive a selection of

London stout Christmas pudding

With brandy butter ice cream

Champagne rhubarb trifle

With clementines and Valrhona chocolate shavings

A selection of farmhouse cheeses from the east Of England

With pear & saffron chutney and oatcakes

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Coffee or Tea & chocolate coated walnuts