Cornish Game Hens With Peach Glaze

Total Time: 3 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 3 hrs Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 cornish hens
• 1/3 cup salt
• 2 tablespoons butter
• salt and pepper
• basil
• 1/2 cup peach preserves (can use apricot)
• 1/2 cup butter

Recipe

• 1 cut the hens down the backbone (split).
• 2 brine the hens: dissolve the salt in water,put hens& salted water into large bowl.
• 3 (i usually put them into a large plactic bag) refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
• 4 remove hens, rinse thoroughly, pat dry, prick the skin allover the breast and legs with point of paring knife.
• 5 melt the butter in small pan& mix with preserves.
• 6 add salt, pepper& basil.
• 7 preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 8 place hens in shallow pan (i usually line pan with foil for easy clean-up).
• 9 rub hens with butter.
• 10 spoon butter& preserve mixture over hens.
• 11 bake 35 to 45 minutes.