4 cornish game hens
1/2 cup butter
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp rosemary
2 cloves garlic, pressed
Directions
Rub hens with butter. Combine other ingredients and use to baste
hens. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour, basting with lemon mixture
every 10 minutes. If serving with rice, spoon remaining lemon mixture
over rice.
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Poultry
The History of Recipes
We are able to track the history of `recipes` far back into history, in truth as far into history as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and maybe even further. In practice though, in the main part, these old records were just very basic hieroglyphic instructions for preparing food.
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