You will need to do some advance planning for this recipe, as the wild boar benefits from a marinade for a day or two to tenderize the meat before cooking. A meaty leg of venison also works well in this type of preparation.
You could serve this daube with plain steamed potatoes, polenta or pasta. I like to serve it with these potato and cheese pancakes to soak up all the delicious sauce.

Cut the meat into two-inch cubed chunks. Put the meat in a large bowl. Coarsely chop the onion and carrot, lightly crush the garlic cloves and add them to the bowl. Make the bouquet garni by tying up 2 bay leaves, a handful of parsley sprigs and a large branch of thyme with kitchen twine. Add this to the bowl along with the cloves, orange peel, peppercorns, wine and red wine vinegar. Stir the mixture and add some water if the meat is not entirely covered by the marinade. Drizzle over a little olive oil, cover and refrigerate 24-48 hours, stirring the mixture once or twice in that time.

Preheat the oven to 300°F.

Lift the meat from the marinade with a slotted spoon and pat the meat dry with paper towel. Strain the marinade, reserving the liquid and the vegetables. In a large heavy- bottom casserole or Dutch oven, heat the oil and butter over high heat until foaming. Add a few pieces of meat to the hot fat and brown well on all sides. Don’t add too much meat to the pan at once. You want the meat to sear, so work in batches. Once all the meat has been browned and removed from the pan, add the reserved vegetables (not the bouquet garni) from the marinade and, over medium heat, cook them until lightly browned, about 5-8 minutes. Add the marinade liquid slowly and bring it to a boil. Let it boil for a couple of minutes to cook off the alcohol and then add the browned meat to the liquid. Push the meat down into the liquid and add the bouquet garni. Wet a piece of parchment paper that is roughly the size of the pan and place on top of the meat. Cover the pot and put it into the preheated oven. After 30 minutes check the meat to make sure that it is cooking at a low simmer. Return to the oven and continue to cook for an additional 1½ to 2 hours until very tender when pronged with a fork.

For the beurre manie: Knead the butter and flour together in a small bowl. Chill.

When the boar is tender, remove it from the oven. Lift out the chunks with a slotted spoon and set aside. Strain the sauce through a fine strainer, pressing well to extract all of the flavor from the vegetables. Pour the sauce back into the pan and bring it to a boil. Whisk in the beurre manie 1 teaspoon at a time into the bubbling sauce. When all the lumps have dissolved, season the sauce to taste and reduce until your sauce naps a spoon nicely. Return the meat to the sauce and at this point, you can cool the daube, and reheat it when ready to serve. It will taste even better the next day. Serve hot from the casserole, if you like.

POMMES DE TERRE RAPÉ
Potato and Cheese Pancakes