Doc's Roasted Pheasant With Wine Sauce

Ingredients

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

Directions

1. 1

   In a crockery bowl, add vinegar.

2. 2

   Add one pheasant at a time, and coat inside and outside with vinegar. Set on a plate to drain.

3. 3

   Rub pheasants with butter inside and out.

4. 4

   Place yellow onion quarters in each pheasant.

5. 5

   Place 4 slices of bacon in the bottom of a cast iron dutch oven.

6. 6

   Stoke the oven on medium to high heat.

7. 7

   Regular oven about 380*.

8. 8

   Salt and Pepper pheasants.

9. 9

   Place them on top of the bacon in dutch oven.

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    Roast uncovered for 30 minutes.

11. 11

    Taste the wine. If it is not sweet enough, add the dash of sugar and stir.

12. 12

    Baste the wine on the birds after they

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    have cooked for 20 minutes. Move them apart so that each side gets browned. Baste again.

14. 14

    in ten minutes.Use all the wine.

15. 15

    Check in 40 minutes with a fork, if juices run clear, pheasants are done. Throw away the bacon, or crush for another day and put in the larder. Wipe out dutch oven and hang.

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    Serve pheasants with roasted potatoes and poached apples.