How to Roast a Goose | Waitrose

Cooking a magnificent goose for your Christmas table can be easy - Jon Jones from the Waitrose Cookery School shows you how.

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Geese are in season here in the UK from September 1st. Personally, when I roast a goose, I like to stuff it. Not only with meat stuffing, but also with bread stuffing. My own home-made sage and onion stuffing made with my own freshly-made breadcrumbs. This goose has not been stuffed, but looks absolutely delicious nevertheless.

At Christmas, I often roast a goose in preference to roasting a turkey. There is not as much meat on a goose, and geese are much more expensive than turkeys, but the flavour of a well-raosted goose served with apple sauce is simply outstanding.

If you have never tried roasting a goose, I would suggest that you try roasting one. You will not be disappointed. – Mark

Easter: Simnel Cake | Waitrose

Apr 2, 2014 • Silvana Franco shows you how to make this traditional Easter cake.

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Heston's Christmas Classics : Roasted Gammon with Maple-mustard Glaze | Waitrose & Partners

Dec 2, 2015 • Heston shows you how to make his moreish gammon with maple-mustard glaze. Perfect for an alternative Christmas centrepiece or for Boxing Day lunch.

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Waitrose Forced to Ditch Halal Lamb from Duchy Range

THE MAIL ON SUNDAY: Waitrose is to introduce a range of non-halal lamb products as a response to customers’ concerns about its meat supplies.

Until now, all lamb sold by the store has been slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law, with a Muslim reciting a prayer in Arabic over the meat.

But Waitrose said last night that, from now on, organic Welsh lamb from its Duchy Originals range – established by Prince Charles to market produce from his estates – will no longer be halal.


Waitrose said they made their decision in order to give customers ‘more choice’. But their reversal of policy comes a week after The Mail on Sunday revealed how most British supermarkets were secretly selling halal meat – especially lamb – without telling customers.

The investigation found that most New Zealand lamb sold in major British supermarkets was halal, meaning that the prayer ‘In the name of Allah, who is the greatest’ is said at the time of slaughter. Stores selling lamb slaughtered according to Islamic law included Waitrose, Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury’s.

After inquiries by The Mail on Sunday last week, Waitrose said: ‘We have decided to offer our customers an option to buy lamb which has not received the halal blessing.’

Waitrose said that all their other lamb produced in the UK and New Zealand will continue to be halal without being described as such on the packaging. Continue reading and comment >>> Abul Taher | Sunday, October 03, 2010

'Dutchy Originals' is a company which belongs to Prince Charles.

Emma Hartley: Waitrose's Delivery Company Goes Islamic
TELEGRAPH BLOGS: What could be more middle England than Waitrose? So it was intriguing to learn that the delivery company most closely associated with it - Ocado - has accepted a £10 million investment from the Bank of London and the Middle East (BLME), which advertises itself as "sharia'a compliant".

At first glance this is perplexing. Will the wide-aisled bastion of high quality deli and fine wines for the upper middle classes have to forgo the delivery of alcohol and pork products in order to receive its cash? "No," Ben Lovett, a spokesman for Ocado, tells me. "No change there."

So how does the Islamic financing house justify this arrangement? Surely the whole point of Islamic financing is that it has no truck with that which is haraam, or forbidden - and pork and alcohol fall squarely into this category? Otherwise what's the point of pretending it's any different from any other kind of bank?

Professor Habib Ahmed, who holds the Sharjar Chair in Islamic Law and Finance at Durham University, explains that matters are not, as I suspected, quite so straightforward. "There are different opinions about financing this kind of company. There are two possibilities. One is that because alcohol and pork are not their main business an allowance has been made.

"Second, it is possible that they have structured the deal so they have only invested in a part of the business that is not involved with pork or alcohol. An example might be if an investment is made in a hotel that has a bar, it may possible to organise it so that the two elements are separated financially.

"But unless the sale of alcohol and pork is a very small part of the business it would be difficult for sharia to allow this transaction. It would hang on a technicality - the contracts would be screened by a sharia board. A permissable percentage would typically be three to five per cent." Continue reading and comment here >>> Emma Hartley | Monday, February 2, 2009

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