Recipe - Siu Yeah Gai (Five Spice Game Hens)

4 Cornish game hens
1 tablespoon Five spice powder
2 tablespoon Salt
1 tablespoon Plum sauce
2 tablespoon Bean sauce
2 tablespoon Hoisin sauce
1 tablespoon Sherry
One fourth cup Dark soy sauce
One fourth cup Maple syrup

Wash and clean game hens. Pat dry and rub cavities with the five spice
powder. Mix hoisin sauce, bean sauce, sherry and plum sauce. Rub remaining
sauce mixture plus salt. Let stand over night. Mix soy sauce and syrup.

Preheat oven at 350 degrees. Rub skin of game hens with soy sauce and syrup
mixture. Roast back side up for 2025 minutes. Turn breast side up and
roast for another 2025 minutes until skins turn golden brown.

From "The Chinese Village Cookbook." A practical guide to Cantonese country
cooking. Rhoda Yee, Yerba Bueana Press, San Francisco. 1975.

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