Roast Stuffed Cornish Hens

Name: Roast Stuffed Cornish Hens
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 2 cups, kosher salt or 1 cup table salt; 6 , Cornish game hens (each less than 1 1/2 pounds if possible), trimmed of extra fat, giblets removed, rinsed well; 1 , recipe stuffing, heated until very hot; 6 tablespoons, balsamic vinegar; 3 tablespoons, olive oil; 1/4 cup, dry vermouth or white wine

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 1997

Main Courses

Game Birds

Roasts

SERVES6

TIME1½ hours, plus 2 hours brining

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our best stuffed Cornish hens recipe, we wanted to stuff and roast at least six grocery store–quality Cornish hens in a way that made them look good and taste great. To prevent steaming, we lifted the birds up and out of the roasting pa...

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