Instructions: Mix the venison chicken garlic and sherry in a bowl and leave while you prepare the onion.

Melt the butter and cook the onion gently until it starts to brown but dont let it burn.

Mix with the other ingredients and season well.

Pack into a 1lb loaf tin and cover with foil.

Put into a small roasting tin and add about an inch of hot water around the loaf tin.

Place halfway down the roasting ovenfor 15 minutes and then transfer to the simmering ovenfor about an hour.

Cool overnight with a weight on top and chill.

Turn out the next day and cut into sloes. Serve with a dessertspoon of jelly on each plate or a tsp of rowan jelly and one of blackberry looks very pretty. Garnish with salad leaves.

Rich game pates and sharp jellies of rowan sloe or blackberries are truly a match made in Heaven.

This recipe will serve 4 to 6 slices as a starter or you can serve it with warm crusty bread as a lunch for two hungry people.

Serves 2

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