One bird serves two.
Ingredients:
- 1 pheasant.
- ½ onion.
- 1 rasher bacon.
- 100g butter.
- Lard.
- 1 slice of bread.
Method:
- Take an oven ready pheasant.
- Put a knob of butter and half an onion inside and a piece of bacon over the breast.
- Put some fat into a roasting tin and put it into a hot oven 400F.
- When the fat is hot put a piece of bread into the fat. It should brown in two minutes.
- Turn over the bread and put the pheasant on top.
- Cook for 45 minutes, basting when necessary.
- Serve with bread sauce, gravy, vegetables and roast potatoes.
- Carve as if it is a roast chicken.


