Instructions: Salt and pepper the pheasant inside and out, then put 1 tablespoon of the butter in the cavity. Place in a small roasting pan with 1/2 cup water.

Roast in a preheated 350 F oven one hour.

Meanwhile peel and core the apples, leaving them whole. Saute them in 2 tablespoons butter, turning and basting them until they are just tender; dont let them become mushy.

Toast the bread and butter it.

When the pheasant is done, put it on a warm platter. Surround it with the apples placed on the toast. Fill the cavity of each apple with a teaspoonful of gooseberry jam. Keep warm.

Warm the Calvados or applejack and pour it over the pheasant. Set aflame.

Pour the cream into the roasting pan juices, scraping up all the good brown bits. Serve this on this side.

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