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Lavender Salt Dough Baked Partridge

Written by Countryside Alliance | Jan 1, 2000 12:00:00 AM

Serves: 4

Difficulty: Hard

Preparation time: 2 hours (+12 hours)

Cooking Time: 30 mins

  • 4 Oven Ready Partridge
  • 50g Butter100g Lavender
  • 500g Cornish Sea Salt
  • 100g Table Salt
  • 1kg Plain Flour
  • 2 Egg Whites
  • 600ml Warm Water

Place the lavender in the sea salt overnight to infuse. Put flour, lavender salt, table salt, egg whites and water into a bowl and mix together, place the dough into a refrigerator to rest for at least 2 hours. Sear the partridges in a hot pan on all sides, baste with the butter and season well. Roll out the salt dough and wrap each partridge in the salt dough. Bake for 30 minutes at 180ºC.