https://www.dr.dk/drtv/se/nak-and-ae...ribskov_257008
Okay, for those of you who intend to watch this one hour long episode of Whack and Eat, you are going to see a Frederik you have never seen before.
It's Frederik the outdoorsman, the hunter, the guide, the joker and the buddy.
It takes place over three days.
With arrival and setting up camp on the first day, including meeting Frederik and talking about the animal that is to be hunted, a Sika-deer. And the alternative, goldfish.
The second day is the actual hunt.
The third day preparing the meal and having Frederik as the guest of honor.
All of it takes place at Grib Forest near Fredensborg Palace, so Frederik know the area like the back of his hand.
Grib Forest was set up as a royal hunting ground by Christian V. and the hunting type back then was to chase the deer along lanes in the forest until it was exhausted. Then the king would come in and kill the deer with a hunting sword, a Hirschfänger. (They are still used today I understand, to sometimes kill off a wounded wild boar, but I don't think they are used in DK.)
The hunt we are going to see is pyrsch hunting, without dogs. That is sneaking up on the animal. A difficult type of hunting, because even though the deer are used to human activity, they prefer to stay out of sight.
There are four types of deer in DK, with the Sika being one. The Red Deer alone has a population of some 800.000 in DK! So the population needs to be culled, otherwise nature will reduce the population in a very merciless manner.
The cast is: Jørgen, the hunter. Nikolai, the cook and Frederik, the guide.
We start with Nikolai and Jørgen arriving at the camp in Grib Forest on the first day. In late October.
Jørgen, decides to set up an open kitchen, so the tables are removed from under a tree into the open. - In October, in DK = rain...
05: - Raising the flag, while singing a pathetic and very false version of the royal anthem.
Raining! - Open kitchen... yeah, great idea...
07: Frederik arriving, with some weird gear. Pieces of wood.
08: Jørgen has a project. Digging holes for driving the stakes into the ground... ????!!????
11: After some hard work the purpose is revealed: Jørgen reads a quote by QMII, where she express the importance of sometimes creating something that serves no purpose at all. That has no meaning. That isn't necessary. It's just done.
11:21 - It dawns on Frederik that the quote is by his mother. - From a New year speech.
Nikolai, the cook's face: You suckered me good!
A toast, while Frederik tells a little about the history and this being royal hunting ground.
13: The Sika. In it's summer coat, in the picture. While it wears a dark winter-coat hear in October. But they are in heat.
Frederik explains about the four types of deer in Grib Forest.
Jørgen show us how the males sound while in heat.
16: If they don't get a Sika, they'll have to eat goldfish. - They are often discarded into lakes in DK, where they breed happily while slowly turning more grey and bigger from generation to generation. Good camouflage against birds and pikes.
The cook is ready for the challenge!
The hunt will start the next day at 7.30. That's about half an hour before sun-up. Then Frederik will pick them up.
18: The photo is from Frederik IX's desk at Amalienborg and shows his collection of pipes.
They then try two types of tobacco, they know Frederik IX smoked. A mild summer tobacco and a spicy winter-tobacco.
Early on in the series Jørgen turned the cook on to begin smoking pipe.
20: Morning on the second day.
Breakfast, prepared from the dough, made the evening before and braided into shape.
25: Frederik arriving - in style! The carriage is a hunting carriage and it was a present for Frederik on his 50th B-day. PH used a similar when he hosted the royal hunts.
28: Walk in the grass. Makes less noise.
31:27: Sika! - The call of a Sika-male.
There is a Sika in there somewhere...
33: Trying to use the discarded antlers as bait. Sounds like deer fighting.
35: Try the call. - Response!
The whistle stuns the Sika. Fire! - Hit.
Wait five minutes. It the deer wasn't killed right away, it needs time to bleed out. And if spooked they can still run several hundred meters, even though they are de facto dead. So calm.
Having pastry to celebrate.
Frederik got his hunting license when he was sixteen.
39: (Instant kill as far as I can tell, the spine. Hardly any blood. Shock-death.) Frederik breaks the deer. The liver and heart is selected by the cook. But careful, because a male-deer in season is full of hormones and the smell can contaminate the meat if not careful when breaking the animal.
Back to camp - in style.
42: Third day. Looking for ingredients.
43: Poisonous!
Liver, heart and steak on a bone, with mushrooms and green.
49: No clean mug for Frederik, so the dishes are done - male-style...
51: Frederik arriving for dinner.
And helps out with the cooking and setting and decorating the table - male-style...
But eh... how about plates, forks, knives...?
Eleven years and he still doesn't get the basic, sigh!
Bon appetite.
I understand it was Frederik who invited Jørgen and Nikolai to Grib Forest.
) and it's very popular and has been around for many years, fifteen or so, I think.
I'll write a guide for you to watch and follow the program and post it later this evening along with the link Nordic kindly provided.
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