Pheasant katsu recipe Ingredients Sauce 50g tomato ketchup 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp mirin 1 tbsp English honey 5g ginger, grated Cabbage 300g green cabbage,…
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A class in gundog retrieving
Working your gundog successfully is a matter of straightforward common sense. Keep it simple, avoid these common errors and you will have a wonderful shooting season ahead. 10 basic blunders…
Partridge biryani
Partridge biryani recipe A perfect dish for using up freezer stash. Ingredients Partridge marinade 100ml plain yoghurt 75ml light game stock 1 clove of garlic, grated 10g ginger, grated ½…
John ‘Mad Jack’ Mytton: a spectacular eccentric from the Regency era
The Regency era produced some spectacular eccentrics who managed to gamble and drink their way through vast fortunes. However, none were as potty or as tragic as John ‘Mad Jack’…
Repairing vintage fountain pens
I have come across three nice old fountain pens that belonged to my mother: a Conway Stewart fountain pen, a Waterman fountain pen and a Swan, all dating from the…
April 2026
Conservation is front and centre in the April issue of The Field, in which we report from a Purdey Award-winning family shoot in Hertfordshire. Matthew Dennison explains why so many…
William Garfit interviewed by The Field
Unsurprisingly for someone who has spent most of his life gripping a paintbrush, pen or gun, it’s with a firm handshake that William Garfit greets me on the doorstep to…
HJ Hussey Imperial side-by-sides
This month our test considers a pair of 29in-barrelled HJ Hussey Imperial sidelock ejectors built by Grulla Armas, the respected and long-established Spanish maker. They have been produced for and…
Hunt point and retrieve breeds: a Continental divide
Your first day’s driven shooting is invariably memorable. However, for one friend of mine this was for all the wrong reasons. The much-anticipated outing dawned cold and frosty, and it…