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Game for Christmas – the perfect roast for smaller households

Ben Colvill, 05.12.2022

With even the smallest commercially available turkeys and geese dwarfing the Christmas table, game birds offer a tasty and elegant alternative.

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Unless you are particularly fond of goose Fricassée for days or weeks of turkey sandwiches, the festive centrepiece presents something of a problem for the Christmas cook. Rarely less than 3kg, small turkeys serve between 5-7 people, and a goose, although offering up less meat, remains similarly too large for a smaller family.

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