Recipe - Cornish Hens With Liver And Cognac

6 Cornish hens
Dressing:
6 Green onions cut or sliced up
1 Stick sweet butter
1 pound Chicken livers & any livers
From hens
2 tablespoon Cognac
One half pound Mushrooms coarsely
Chopped
1 teaspoon Salt
Few grinds
Several
1 pn Thyme
One half cup Port wine
1 sl Stale french bread grated
Or crushed
1 Clove garlic smashed and
Minced
One fourth cup Parsley minced
2 teaspoon Orange peel grated
1 tablespoon Orange juice
2 lg Eggs lightly beaten
One fourth cup Pistachios optional
Black pepper
Scrapes of nutmeg

~Place One half stick butter in skillet and add 2/3 of the green onions,
cooking until wilted. Trim and dry livers, and add to pan. Cook until
lightly browned, sprinkle with cognac and cook a few more minutes. Add
remaining butter and mushrooms. Cook until mushrooms are wilting, and add
seasonings. Add port and cook until evaporated. Remove from heat. When it
has cooled somewhat either grind on fine plate or chop fine by hand. Add
eggs, remaining onions and crumbs and combine gently but thoroughly. (OR)
Place everything in processor and pulse machine only until livers are
chopped fine, but not turned into a paste. Stir in nuts. Set aside
~cornish hens Basting Sauce Melt and stir together: 1 stick butter
One half cup port

~With kitchen scissors, split hens up backbone. This is only to make
serving and eating easier, and if you want to serve 12 people instead of 6.
Rinse and dry, salt and pepper inside and out. Stuff with pate and truss
to restore and maintain shape. Place in shallow roasting pan on a rack.
Preheat oven to 400F. Pour One half of sauce over birds, cover loosely with
foil, bake 30 minutes, basting twice. Add to reserved basting sauce: 1
Tablespoon A1 Sauce 1 Tablespoon Pickapeppa Sauce Remove foil and pour
basting sauce over birds. Continue to roast, uncovered, basting
occasionally with pan juices for 35 45 minutes, until tender and nicely
colored. Cool to near room temp, basting with the pan juices as they cool.
Refrigerate. When ready to serve, remove pate and place next to bird if
you like. Serve cold or with chill off just a little. Include champagne,
french bread, an apple or asparagus salad, depending on season, and big
linen napkins.Grapes for dessert. Who remembers the movie Tom Jones?

Recipe By : DDMmom

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