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'The final leg of my zigzag
across Britain

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brings me to the Rochdale Canal
in Yorkshire.'

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Bargeloads of coal and textiles
used to go up and down here,

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making the fat cats of
the Industrial Revolution fatter.

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Meanwhile, over-exploited workers
couldn't afford to feed themselves -

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they turned to hedgerow
to avoid starvation.

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'I may be just a soft Southerner,
but I think I can
take several leaves

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out of the Yorkshire
wild food cookbook.'

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'To the south of the Yorkshire
town of Hebden Bridge lies one of
nature's waterways.'

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'Its fast-flowing, crystal waters
are a haven for wild brown trout,

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but, at the moment, I'm interested
in the greenery
on its grassy banks.'

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This plant has pride of place
in the Calder Valley spring
hedgerow larder.

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It's called bistort,
although it's known locally as dock.

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It may not look much
and, in its raw state...

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..it tastes fairly disgusting.

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But its arrival in spring is still
the cause of excitement,

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because it means it's time
to cook dock pudding,

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which is known, with perhaps a
little northern irony,

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as the caviar of Calderdale.

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'The recipe tends
not to be written down

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but passed by word of mouth amongst
the ladies of the Calder Valley.'

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'Whether they'll divulge the secrets
to a Southerner is one thing -

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whether they'll agree
on the recipe is another.'

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I hope you've washed them.

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You've taken the stems off?
Most of them, yeah.

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You shouldn't have left
that lot in.

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I don't take all the stalks out.

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There's one there.

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Onions. You need nettles.

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The stinging nettle.
I don't put any.

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It makes it slimy.
A leek. Herbs and spices?

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No! Sage.

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Eggs? No.

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No. Yes. No. Yes. No.

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I don't weigh. Put them in a pan.

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Two hours. Not long. Ten minutes.

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One and a half hours. One and a
half? Pour your water off.

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Let it cool. I do it with a knife.

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A masher. A liquidiser.
And then you add your oatmeal.

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Medium oatmeal. Medium. Medium.

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Fine? Not chunky.

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Stir it well.

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Put a bit of liquid back.

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I put butter in while I mash it.

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Don't want it to look like cow
muck on a plate.

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Sloppy. Rice pudding. Cow clap.

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Cow clap?
That is about the right consistency.

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It's been fascinating.

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My dock pudding research
has taken me uphill and downdale,

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and all around the houses. I have a
mass of information,

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most of it conflicting.

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I've got to cut through all this and
prepare a dock pudding of my own,

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because, later, the good ladies of
the valley

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are coming to judge
my first dock pudding.

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With comparisons
from caviar to cowpat,

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if I aim for the cowpat end of
the scale, I shouldn't fall far.

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'Some would have sneered, but I
thought the leek was a sound idea.'

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'Nettles were an old friend,
so they got a look-in.'

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'And I split a dozen cooking times
and let it simmer it for 40
minutes.'

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'The oatmeal was medium, as
prescribed by nine out of ten cooks.

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But a knob of butter, which had
only one champion, I couldn't
resist'

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'With the traditional bacon
rashers,

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my first dock pudding
was as ready as it could be.'

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I think I've got it looking
like a prize cow clap.

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So, those who walk through
the Calder Valley of dock,

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repent ye, for judgment is at hand.

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You don't get that dock pudding
taste, do you?

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No. I don't think you do. No.

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Sorry to interrupt,
but this is my dock pudding.

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It looks like dock pudding.
It smells like dock pudding.

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It smells like it.

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Tell me if it tastes
anything like it.

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Looks a bit stringy.

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Yes, it hasn't been chopped up.

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The presentation isn't good at all.

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No marks for presentation.
Taste it and tell me...

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You wonder where't docks are...

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Mmm. It's all right.
It tastes like dock pudding.

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It's short of docks, in't it ?

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I like docks in dock pudding!

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You said take the stalks out.
No. No, YOU said...

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Oh, definitely. I said I don't take
the stalks out, but people do.

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I don't. You do?
Definitely. You told me to put an
egg in.

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No, I didn't tell you
to put an egg in. Someone did. No,
not an egg. I DIDN'T put an egg in.

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You're right.

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It wouldn't get far
in a pudding competition!

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No prizes?
Oh, no. It's one of those plates we

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look at and say, "What do you
think?"

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And what do you think?

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I think it's rubbish, is that.

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It tastes nice. The consistency is
not what I do, but everyone
to their individual taste.

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Thank you.

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I'm out of here.

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'Not all northern food traditions
are as esoteric.'

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'Besides hotpot, Lancashire is home
to a famous seafood delicacy.'

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'At Morecambe Bay, tradition
dictates a knee jerk reaction -

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reach for the shrimping net.

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'20 or 30 years ago,
I wouldn't have been alone here.'

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'Shrimping was popular
and half an hour trawling

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would have netted a bucketful to
take to the boarding house for tea.'

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'But, at the low tide mark,
shrimps ain't what they used to be.'

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It struck me that gathering nuts
in May was an act of sheer optimism,

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but freezing them off
in pursuit of shrimps,

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it's another kind of madness.

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I've been trawling here for too long
and, so far, I've got two shrimps.

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'For any chance of getting a
plateful I'll have to upgrade my
equipment

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to a more industrial scale.'

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'The following morning,
I met Raymond Edmondson -

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the last fisherman in Morecambe
Bay to catch and cook
his own potted shrimps.'

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This is your net.
The little one?

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Watch it doesn't pull you in.

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You've enough rope out.

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So this...
Oh, I think I've got something!

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It's a mermaid!

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This tells us if there's any
shrimps.

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It gives us an idea
what might be in't big net.

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What do you call this?

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A lyre. Because it tells lies!

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It doesn't tell the truth.

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'While the lyre tested the water,
Raymond prepared his boiler.'

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You cook them in sea water?

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Yeah. That's what gives Morecambe
Bay shrimps such a delicate taste.

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Shall I pull this in?

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Aye, pull that lyre in.
See what we've got.

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What you got there?
It's kicking with them.

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Let's have a look.

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Oh, hang on, hang on.

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You've got to watch that. Here.

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A weaver fish. It is.

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Nasty poison.
Absolutely nasty, yeah.

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See how it stuck its spines up then?

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You stick one of them, it's like a
need. They inject you with a poison.

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Yeah.
It's terrible stuff.

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If you take a fillet off a big one,
it's delicious.

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'After trawling a mile of coast, it
was time to haul in the big net

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and see if the lyre
had been telling us porkies.'

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Pull her round that way and
we'll tip it on that cleaning deck.

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That's it.

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Push it right into that
corner. There you go.

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You undo that tail end.

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Now, then.

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Wow!

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It's like the lucky dip. You've got
a couple of shrimps, anyway.

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One or two.
I'll show you what we'll do.

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Shovel them that way a bit. You'll
have to come this way in a minute.

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Put a shovelful in there,
like that,

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ready. In you go.

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Like panning for gold.
That's it.

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I wish we were panning for gold.
We'd be all right.

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The shrimps have gone through.

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All them fish go back over the side
so they grow a bit bigger.

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'We riddled our way back -

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a rough riddle
to get rid of fish and crabs,

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then a fine riddle
to remove the little shrimps.'

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'Back at Ray's mooring,
we got the boiler going.'

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Piping hot.

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How long do they need?

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Not long. We'll give them a stir
with this ladle.

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When they boil up, we'll just simmer
for a minute, away we go.

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30% in the boiler
and 70% over the side.

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Yeah. Yesterday, they were better
again.

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Just from day to day, different
tides... You just never know.

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That's the trouble with this job -
you never know.

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How's them? Beautiful.
They look and smell amazing.

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It may not seem a lot to you, but
it's more than a couple of
mouthfuls to me.

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You're getting me worried, just how
many you're going to eat.

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I'm very hungry.

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How's them?

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Great. Now, look...

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Oh, my God, what's that?

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Dipping sauce, give it a whirl.

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I know you,
you'll polish the whole lot off.

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Oh, they're lovely and hot.

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Your shrimps are fantastic.

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Well, I don't know what weird
and wonderful mixture this is.

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I'd better not say it's good,
otherwise you'll tell me what it is.

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What is it?

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It's wild garlic with olive oil,
a bit of home-made vinegar,

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salt and pepper.

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Oh, well, that's not too bad. Now
you've told me I don't feel so bad.

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I've eaten these all my life.

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Not bored of them yet?
And look at me now.

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That's chocolate biscuits! Biscuits
and prawns - a good diet. Yeah.

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'As spring slips towards summer,
the sun is upping its work rate

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and life on the water
becomes gentle and civilised.'

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'The canal banks are green,

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'the choice of edible plants
reaches a peak

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'and the forager
is almost spoilt for choice.'

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And it's not just greens I'm after -

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it's pinks, purples and yellows.

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00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:05,760
These primroses
are not to decorate my boudoir.

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I could put them in a salad,
I could crystallise them with
sugar,

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or I can suck out the nectar
from the back of the flower

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and chew it up,
like a spring sweetie.

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'There are dozens of edible
wild flowers, from violets

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and dandelions

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to hairy bittercress

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and red dead nettles.'

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'But a well-kept flowerbed
offers a whole bunch more.'

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'Cultivated cowslips and primulas,

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cherry blossom and
forget-me-nots -

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colourful reminders
that free food can be tame

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and that the forager's art
begins in your garden -

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or somebody else's,
as long as you ask.'

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00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:11,440
To pay proper tribute to my floral
feast I've made this batter,

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which will become a better batter
by adding a whisked egg white.

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This has to be the most beautiful
cooking I can imagine.

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00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,320
You can dip anything
in this batter -

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a sliver of carrot,
a slice of apple, aubergines.

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00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,160
All you decide is whether
you want it salty or sweet,

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or, in my case,
an indulgent drizzle of honey

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and a sprinkling
of fresh flower petals.

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'Sex or what?'
SHEEP BLEATS

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00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:10,840
'Young rooks squawking in the tree
tops is one of the sounds
of spring.'

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00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,000
'For many, it's a cheerful chatter,

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but it reminds the farmer
that the enemy is multiplying.'

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00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,520
'In this part of the world,
historically,

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it used to mean a new source
of protein was on the spring menu.'

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00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:32,200
'Everything was rationed
during the wartime,

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and they started making rook pies,
they did.'

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00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,520
Was it reckoned to be a last resort?

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00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,880
No, I couldn't tell you. It were
just one of those things.

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It was a delicacy.

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It were a delicacy, it were good.

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If you had to get those rooks,
would you climb?

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Shoot 'em down. I'm not licensed
so I thought I'd do it the hard way,

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the old way. Are you?

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With help from Wally.

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Any of you care to join me?

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'Mid-May is the traditional time
to take the "branches" -

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fledglings which are plump enough
to eat.'

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Have you got a parachute?
CHUCKLES

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Oh, something went click then.
I didn't like the sound of that.

234
00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,600
Your knee joint!

235
00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:33,440
'Wally Smith has been up more trees
than a squirrel. He climbs rookeries
for pest control.'

236
00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,440
He'll get up.

237
00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,600
Will he get up today?

238
00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,920
He'll soon go when he starts...

239
00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,680
Sycamore is a good tree for
climbing, or not?

240
00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,240
It's a little brutal,
it cracks easily.

241
00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,280
That's very reassuring.

242
00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,560
Oh, I'm on a swinger here.

243
00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,560
Yes, the tree's moving.

244
00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,560
'In the past, the nimble
would shin up the trees

245
00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:07,360
and tie chicks to a branch
so they couldn't fly the nest.'

246
00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,880
'The parents fed them
until they were fattened,

247
00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,000
then they'd be fetched down
again for the pot.'

248
00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,800
I'm ready for the final assault.

249
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:24,120
OK. I'm all right to transfer my
weight?

250
00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:29,920
OK. Hold it there. Don't forget
it's hooked around your foot.

251
00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,760
I'm going to let go.

252
00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:35,360
Good man.
I'm right on it.

253
00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,120
I'm on twigs here.

254
00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,040
Yes, um...

255
00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:42,120
Can I get a leg in there? Yep.

256
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,560
Whoa!

257
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,320
My head is just like...

258
00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:50,760
Don't get poked in the eye
if they're...

259
00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:55,080
I can see their tail feathers.
I've got to get the pack off.

260
00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:59,560
Don't put your eyes too close
to the edge of the nest.

261
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,200
Oh. There!

262
00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,160
Careful, they'll jump.
You have to be quick.

263
00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:06,960
That's not too clever.

264
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,000
They've jumped on you.

265
00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,560
You're not very sneaky.

266
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,640
Hold it.

267
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,720
'This may seem
a bizarre way of getting meat,

268
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,480
but all meat is from a killing

269
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:28,480
and all those who eat it share
responsibility for the manner of
that killing.'

270
00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:33,600
'I like to know where my meat's
from and how it was killed.'

271
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,840
'If that means killing it myself,
I'll do it.'

272
00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,520
Can you get the branches on?

273
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,520
And snap it off?
Yeah. And bend it towards you.

274
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,240
He's holding on tight. Come on over.

275
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,280
Come on over !

276
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,280
Good man! Well done, well done!

277
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,680
That's two.
We shouldn't hang around.

278
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:04,120
'Two rooks are enough for me,
but not for four farmers.'

279
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:08,800
'So we raided two more nests
and took seven rooks in all.'

280
00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,400
There's not much meat on these,

281
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:17,520
so there's no point plucking
the whole bird as if we were
to roast it.

282
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:22,160
We take a sharp knife as close as
possible to the breast bone

283
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,520
and work it down
so we waste as little as we can.

284
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,040
And we end up with a collection
of chunky little breasts like this.

285
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:46,560
My farmer friends may be expecting
an in-the-bomb-shelter rook pie,

286
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:50,800
but I didn't want to cook these
for upwards of an hour,

287
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,080
so I'm making something else.

288
00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:57,520
I've marinated them in elderberry
vinegar for piquancy.

289
00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,280
And I'm going to make
a horribly fashionable warm salad.

290
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,040
I think my pan is just about
up to frying temperature.

291
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:27,840
'The fried rook breasts go on top of
fresh hedgerow greens, mixed
leaves.'

292
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:32,640
'And the salad is dressed with
a warm vinaigrette
of de-glazed pan juices.'

293
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,240
These are my blackbirds.

294
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,200
There aren't four-and-twenty
baked in a pie.

295
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:51,000
But I think I've made a dish
fit to set before a king.

296
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:53,800
The sight of you gentlemen...

297
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:58,720
How are we doing?
..is quite terrifying.

298
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,560
Elderberry wine before we start.

299
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,840
I used to... A rook pie.

300
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:12,880
Cheers.

301
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,320
Like roast beef, in't it?

302
00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:19,840
No, not quite.

303
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,760
It's tender.

304
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,400
Bring back memories?
Interesting.

305
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,520
Not as good as my mother-in-law's.

306
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:38,080
No, it just had a few carrots in it,
and onions.

307
00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:39,760
It's all right.

308
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,640
A bit rare, is mine.

309
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,320
A bit pink?
That's how we do things these days.

310
00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:48,040
Is it? It's fashionable.

311
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,880
I thought cooking was cooking.

312
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:57,120
I didn't cook it for too long cos
I thought they'd be nice and
tender

313
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,640
and they'd only take
five minutes in the pan.

314
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,520
Well, I like it well-cooked.

315
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,560
I could put yours back in.

316
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,120
Too late, I've eaten it.