Cornish Game Hens With Peach Glaze - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 Cornish hens
1/3 cup salt
2 tablespoons butter
salt and pepper
basil
Glaze
1/2 cup peach preserves (can use Apricot)
1/2 cup butter

Preparation

Cut the hens down the backbone (split).
Brine the hens: dissolve the salt in water,put hens& salted water into large bowl.
(I usually put them into a large plactic bag) refrigerate 2 to 3 hours.
Remove hens, Rinse thoroughly, pat dry, prick the skin allover the breast and legs with point of paring knife.
Melt the butter in small pan& mix with preserves.
Add salt, pepper& basil.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Place hens in shallow pan (I usually line pan with foil for easy clean-up).
Rub hens with butter.
Spoon butter& preserve mixture over hens.
Bake 35 to 45 minutes.