Rachel Roddy’s chicken with sweet and sour lemon and tarragon sauce – recipe

If it’s good enough for Prince Ottavio Gonzaga and Anna del Conte, then dare you pass up the opportunity to try this wonderfully sweet and sour way with chicken? While I look at my copies of Jane Grigson’s Fruit Book, Anna del Conte’s Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes, and Francis Bissell’s The Scented Kitchen at home, they seem different from when they are pulled from the shelves in my parent’s kitchen in Dorset. Also, on the first morning of any stay, looking at these three with a cup of ...

By Rachel Roddy