Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade California Farm Cornish Rock Hen in Crust

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make California Farm Cornish Rock Hen in Crust is 2 people. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook California Farm Cornish Rock Hen in Crust estimated approx 2 hours.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have California Farm Cornish Rock Hen in Crust using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Baking a small cornish hen with truffle zest stuffing in a fluffy crust makes it look and taste like you hunted for a wild pheasant to serve as the center piece for a festive dinner.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Prepare to make California Farm Cornish Rock Hen in Crust:

1. Cornish Rock Hen
2. Chicken or duck livers for cavity
3. small brown sliced mushroom
4. Truffle zest powder (amazon $13 per jar)
5. California brandy
6. peppercorns, juniper berries or pine nuts, sage
7. beef bouillion
8. cornstarch or water chestnut flour
9. For the crust:
10. Cup all-purpose flour
11. unsalted butter
12. lemon juice
13. Cost
14. Cornish hen $3, livers $1.48, dash of zest 25 cents, flour 15 cents, Tbs brandy 12 cents, spices 10 cents, lemon juice, spices 20 cents, $2.65 per meal

Steps to make to make California Farm Cornish Rock Hen in Crust

1. Stuff the bird. Poach two whole livers till firm but not cooked through, rinse in cold water, slice thin, soak in brandy, sprinkle with truffle zest. Do not use truffle oil, it is mostly fake and overpowering. Alternate slice of liver with slice of mushroom. Stuff in cavity, close cavity with toothpick.
2. Poach stuffed bird in beefstock, breast down. Bring four cups of water to boil with two beef bouillion cubes and a cheesecloth bag with 10 peppercorns, 10 juniperberries or 5 crushed pine nuts, tsp sage. Immerse bird, poach 15 minutes, remove, rest on baking sheet in warm oven, 250F degrees, breast up.
3. Make jellied sauce from the stock to brush on the bird: reduce the stock by boiling down to one cup of broth, remove cheesecloth bag, add Tbs corn starch or water chest nut flour dissolved in 1/4 cup cold water, stir till jellied, cool. Brush jellied stock on warm bird.
4. Make the dough. Melt a stick of butter. With your fingers, Mix cup of all-purpose flour in glass bowl with 2 Tbs melted butter and 2 Tbs lemon juice, 1Tbs brandy, make firm ball. Flour cutting board, roll dough out till 8” wide and 16” long, brush with melted butter,dust with flour, fold, roll out again, brush again, dust again,fold again. Lay bird on one end of the dough, wrap dough around bird, pinch closed. Brush outside of dough with melted butter.
5. Bake at 450F degrees. Put cornish hen on foil in baking tray in cold center oven, breast up. Turn oven on, bring to temperature, then bake a few more minutes, total baking time on high heat is 15 minutes. Turn oven down to 350F degrees, bake another few minutes if you want a darker crust. Serve on heated plates with baked apple slices and a california Pinot Noir wine. Enjoy.
6. Hint: leftover bones are too sharp for the dog to chew on, we put them in the Garden Outhouse Doggy Privy, which we call the garden fermenter, where they dissolve safely from rats and predators.

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