Recipe - Pheasant A La Mode De Mon

1 Pheasant
1 One half cup Port (*NOT* "cooking port",
real port. "Cooking port"
has salt added)
5 sl Onion (slice thin)
2 tablespoon Mushroom peelings
1 cup Chicken stock
1 Bay leaf
2 Cloves, whole
(or more to taste)
1 Garlic clove
1 tablespoon Parsley, chopped fine
2 tablespoon Celery leaves,
chopped fine
1 sl Lemon (peeled
and chopped)
12 Juniper berries
(less or more to taste)
1 Tangerine (whole),
peeled
One fourth pound Larding pork
(bacon will do)
10 Peppercorns
(bruised)
One fourth cup Mandarine Napoleon
(a tangerine liqueur;
you could probably
substitute Cointreau
in a pinch. Use more
or less, to taste.)
1 cup Sour cream

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Rub pheasant inside and out with salt and
pepper. Sprinkle with port. Stuff with bay leaf, cloves, garlic, parsley,
celery leaves, lemon, juniper berries and tangerine.

Sew the body cavity of the pheasant shut. Moisten the larding pork or
bacon with port and cover the breast. To the roasting pan add onion slices,
mushroom peelings, about 1 cup of port, chicken stock, salt to taste,
peppercorns, more juniper berries to taste, and Mandarine liqueur. Roast
4045 minutes, basting every 10 minutes at least.

Strain gravy. Let stand and skim fat. Just before serving, add sour
cream.

NOTES:

* HOMME Pheasant for Thanksgiving A couple of years ago, we decided
that pheasant would be the perfect Thanksgiving meal for two. My husband
conflated the best parts of all the pheasant recipes we could find (most
came from the Gourmet cookbook) and came up with a recipe that I find
wonderful. It's moist and tender; tastes like chicken gone to heaven. (One
of pheasant's main problems, by the way, is that it tends to be dry.)

* (We usually stick the whole cloves into the tangerine, insert all the
other spices into the body cavity, then add the tangerine.)

* Some of these ingredients may be hard to find; feel free to omit them.
"Mushroom peelings" are simply mushroom stems and leftovers, chopped fine.
"Bruised peppercorns" are peppercorns that have been hit with a wooden
mallet. Bon appetit, and good luck!

: Difficulty: moderate.
: Time: 1 hour.
: Precision: approximate measurement OK.

: Elizabeth Hanes Perry
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