Recipe for Calum Franklin's rabbit and bacon paté en croute

10ml cider vinegar

3 egg yolks mixed with 4 tbsp water for glazing

20ml vegetable oil

Farce:

2 whole rabbits + offal (Franklin uses farmed)

325g smoked back bacon for mince (including fat)

150g clean diced back bacon (2cm dice)

½ bunch tarragon

15g white mustard seed

15g table salt

10g pink salt

100g chopped peeled pistachio

Fresh ground white pepper

Jelly:

Rabbit bones

3 donkey carrots

2 onions

2 leeks

½ celery

1 head garlic

5g thyme

500ml white wine

250ml madeira

300ml veal stock

8 leaves bloomed gelatine

Preparation method

Pastry:

1. Sift flour and milk powder and add to stand mixer with salt

2. Add the butter and mix until a crumble texture has been reached

3. Beat whole eggs with milk and vinegar and add to mixer

4. Combine briefly until dough is formed (do not overwork)

5. Vac pac dough and flatten out and seal, then chill for at least two hours before use and no longer than one day

Farce

1. Trim offal out of rabbits and set aside. Remove shoulders, legs, belly and pencil fillets. Bone and add to offal

2. Chop all carcasses and bones for the jelly

3. Remove loins and trim off silverskin

4. Cut into 2cm dice and add to diced bacon and set aside

5. Put the bacon and fat for mince and boned rabbit through the mincer on the large grinding plate

6. Add all other ingredients (including dice) to mince in a mixing bowl and combine well

7. Weigh mix into 1.5kg portions

Rabbit, bacon and pistachio en croûte jelly

1. Put rabbit bones in combination broiler at 180°C for 20 mins

2. Roast carrots, then onions, then celery, garlic, then add white wine, madeira and thyme, leeks and reduce by half

3. Add rabbit bones, veal stock and cold water to cover, bring up to simmer and skim

4. Slowly simmer for three hours, skimming constantly, and then pass off and reduce down to 750ml, add gelatine

Final preparation:

1. Roll pastry out to 1cm thickness

2. Line a 30cm terrine and chill for 20 minutes

3. When ready, add farce to terrine and lay over a lid and seal edges

4. Cook at 180°C until 60°C inside, then rest and chill overnight

5. Next day add jelly and set