Wild Fowl - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 wild fowl, cleaned
2 lbs apples
1 cup cider
1 onion
cornstarch
fat
molasses
2 ounces herbs

Preparation

Grease iron pot.
Cut and quarter apples and put in pot.
Place cleaned fowl amongst apples.
Slice onion and place on top of bird and pour cider over.
Place pot on pot hook over coals. Add water as needed from time to time.
Cook fowl until tender, 2-3 hours.
For last 1/2 hour add herbs and spices tied in a muslim bag and a little molasses.
Remove fowl and then thicken remaining liquid with cornflour before serving.