Broiled Prairie Hen with Butter

Ingredients

• young prairie hen
• a good piece of butter
• pepper
• salt
• green peas
• potatoes

Method

1. 1

   Select and prepare the prairie hen.

2. 2

   Place in a pan with butter, sprinkle with pepper and salt, and cook covered for about 25 minutes.

3. 3

   Broil until golden brown on both sides.

4. 4

   Joint the hen, cut the breast in halves, pour melted butter over, sprinkle with parsley, and serve with green peas.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 340. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Broiled Prairie Hen with Butter Poule d’ Amerique grillee au Beurre Select young prairie hen; pick, singe, clean, and wash well; slit in the back, crack breast bone, cut neck short and tips of the wings off. Then put in a pan (the breast down) with a good piece of butter on the top; sprinkle with pepper and salt, put in oven — covered — to cook for about twenty-five minutes. When ready to serve, put on a broiler and broil golden brown on both sides. Joint the hen, and cut the breast in halves. Melt some butter and pour over; sprinkle with some chopped parsley and serve with green peas. If two are to be served on the same platter, after jointing arrange the four legs outward with the dark meat between in a crown style and put the breast on top. Put green peas in the centre and some melted butter all over the bird. Garnish with a paper frill on each leg bone. Serve with any kind of potatoes

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