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- From: gerry@syntron.uucp (G. Roderick Singleton)
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- Subject: RECIPE: North American pheasant
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- Date: 22 Apr 88 05:38:49 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE PHEASANT-2 M "18 Nov 87" 1988
- .RZ "PHEASANT AMERIND" "Pheasant in the North American tradition"
- This recipe is adapted from the exceptionally good, controlled-circulation
- \fIRecipes Only\fR Magazine.
- The original dish was created by Mary Richard for
- use in her Teepee Restaurant, in Winnipeg. I found some of the ingredients
- hard to locate in a hurry and used what I had available with good results.
- You can substitute rock Cornish hen, guinea fowl, or chicken for the pheasant
- and hazelnuts, filberts or walnuts for the black walnuts.
- .IH "Serves 2"
- .IG "2\-2\(12 lb" "hen pheasant," "1 kg"
- cleaned
- .IG "1" "onion,"
- quartered
- .IG "1" "bay leaf"
- .IG "6" "peppercorns"
- .IG "1" "small carrot,"
- sliced
- .IG "1" "stalk celery,"
- sliced
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- .IG "4 Tbsp" "butter" "50 ml"
- .IG "pinch" "powdered thyme"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "rosemary," "1 ml"
- dried and crumbled
- .IG "\(14 cup " "chopped mushrooms" "20 g"
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "flour" "30 ml"
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "black walnut meats," "30 ml"
- finely chopped
- .PH "(BIRDS)"
- .SK 1
- Split pheasant down the breastbone (or have your butcher do this).
- .SK 2
- Rinse the halves, place in a deep pot and barely cover with water.
- Add bay leaf, onion, carrot, celery, salt and peppercorns.
- .SK 3
- Bring to rolling boil, then turn down heat and simmer for approximately 30
- minutes, or until tender. Remove foam and scum as it forms.
- Remove bird(s) from broth, reserving the broth.
- .SK 4
- Using a heavy skillet, saut\z\(aae the halves in
- .AB "2 Tbsp" "30 ml"
- of the butter until golden.
- .SK 5
- Place birds into small roasting pan or casserole with just enough water
- to cover the bottom of the pan.
- Sprinkle with thyme and rosemary.
- .SK 6
- Bake, lightly covered with foil, for 30\-40 minutes at
- .TE 350 175 .
- .PH "(GRAVY)"
- .SK 1
- While the birds are in the oven, strain the broth and boil rapidly down to
- .AB "2 cups" "500 ml"
- .SK 2
- Brown the mushrooms using the same skillet in which you browned the pheasant.
- Remove the mushrooms and keep them warm.
- .SK 3
- Melt the remaining
- .AB "2 Tbsp" "25 ml"
- of butter in the skillet.
- Add the flour, stirring up the browning from the pan.
- .SK 4
- Cook over moderately high heat until golden brown. Blend in the broth using a
- wire whisk.
- .SK 5
- Add mushrooms and continue cooking approximately 1\-2 minutes.
- Turn down heat, cover and keep warm until pheasant is roasted.
- .NX
- When the pheasants are cooked, remove them from the oven and scrape the herbs
- from the skin. After placing the pheasant halves on a warm platter (or leaving
- them in the casserole), pour the gravy over the pheasant. Garnish with the
- chopped nutmeats and serve. This dish is particularly good with wild rice.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy once you have the all the ingredients ready.
- .I Time:
- 40 minutes preparation, 80 minutes cooking.
- .I Precision:
- measure the spices.
- .WR
- G. Roderick Singleton
- Syntronics Manufacturing Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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