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Recipe Tags: Time To Make Course Main Ingredient Cuisine Preparation Main Dish Fruit Oven European Scottish Wild Game Apples Meat Pheasant Equipment 4 Hours Or Less

Scots Pheasant

Adapted from a feast of scotland. posted for zwt6. Cox's orange pippin apples are crisp and sweet, with a complex flavor. if you can't find them, any crisp, sweet apple will do.

Steps

Preheat oven to 350f.
Melt half the butter in a skillet.
Add pheasant and brown on all sides.
Remove pheasant to a plate.
Melt remaining butter.
Add apples and cook until they begin to color.
Place half the apples in a casserole dish.
Put pheasant in the casserole breast down.
Arrange remaining apples around bird.
Pour in half the cream.
Cover and bake for 40 minutes.
Turn bird over and cook for 35 minutes more.
Remove casserole from oven.
Increase heat to 450f.
Pour drambuie and remaining cream over bird.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Return to oven for 5-10 minutes.

Ingredients

pheasant, butter, apples, single cream, drambuie, salt and pepper