Recipe for Mallard and Cabbage - Mallard and Cabbage Recipe - The Good Table by Valentine Warner (Mitchell Beazley, hardback, stg £20)

Ingredients

• 70g butter, at room temperature
• 1 red cabbage, cored and finely sliced
• 12 plump pitted no-soak prunes (and a couple to eat while cooking), roughly chopped
• 1 bay leaf
• 6 cloves
• flaked sea salt and black pepper
• juice of 1 orange
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1-1/2 teaspoons soft light brown sugar
• 2 mallards, at room temperature, giblets removed