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Doc's Roasted Pheasant With Wine Sauce Recipe


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Ingredients
  • 4 small yellow onions, peeled & quartered .
  • 1/2 c butter .
  • 4 slices lean bacon .
  • 1 c red wine or rhubarb wine .
  • salt & pepper .
  • 1 dash sugar .
  • 1/2 c vinegar .
  • 4 pheasants, drawn

Directions
  • Step #1 In a crockery bowl, add vinegar.
  • Step #2 Add one pheasant at a time, & coat inside & outside with vinegar.
  • Step #3 Set on a plate to drain.
  • Step #4 Rub pheasants with butter inside & out.
  • Step #5 Place yellow onion quarters in each pheasant.
  • Step #6 Place 4 slices of bacon in the bottom of a cast iron dutch oven.
  • Step #7 Stoke the oven on medium to high heat.
  • Step #8 Regular oven about 380*.
  • Step #9 Salt & Pepper pheasants.
  • Step #10 Place them on top of the bacon in dutch oven.
  • Step #11 Roast uncovered for 30 mins.
  • Step #12 Taste the wine.
  • Step #13 If it is not sweet enough, add the dash of sugar & stir.
  • Step #14 Baste the wine on the birds after they have cooked for 20 mins.
  • Step #15 Move them apart so that each side gets browned.
  • Step #16 Baste again.
  • Step #17 in ten mins.
  • Step #18 Use all the wine.
  • Step #19 Check in 40 mins with a fork, if juices run clear, pheasants are done.
  • Step #20 Throw away the bacon, or crush for another day & put in the larder.
  • Step #21 Wipe out dutch oven & hang.
  • Step #22 Serve pheasants with roasted potatoes & poached apples.
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