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When I started The Ferguson Recipes in 2006, my main goal was to create a place where I could collect and present our favorite family recipes in an orderly fashion, without all of the distractions of other recipe sites. At The Ferguson Recipes you will find recipes, plain and simple, just like the recipe cards you have crammed into that well worn binder of your family's most beloved recipes.

Many of the recipes included here are Ferguson family favorites passed down through the years. Many more are recipes we have gotten from friends or shamelessly "adopted" from other recipe sites. And a lot of the recipes are from three recipe collections which family members have participated in creating: "Cooking with Carl, Hugh and your Friends", "Cooking With Cow", "The Sears Sun Cookbook", and more!

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Curried Game Hens
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These exotic Curried Game Hens deliver sophisticated Thai flavors with surprisingly simple preparation. The overnight marinade of coconut milk, fresh lemongrass and red curry paste infuses the tender meat with complex, aromatic flavor. Roasted to golden perfection, the hens develop a stunning caramelized exterior while remaining juicy inside. The reduced coconut-curry sauce creates the perfect finishing touch for this elegant, restaurant-quality dish that's impressive enough for special occasions yet accessible enough for adventurous home cooks.
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Ingredients
2 1/4 cups canned unsweetened coconut milk*
3 tablespoons chopped fresh lemongrass*
5 1/2 teaspoons Thai red curry paste*
2 1 1/2-pound Cornish game hens, halved lengthwise

*Available at Asian markets and some supermarkets nationwide.
Directions
Combine 1 cup coconut milk, lemon-grass and 4 teaspoons curry paste in large baking dish; whisk to blend.
Add hens to marinade; turn to coat.
Cover and chill overnight, turning occasionally.
Preheat oven to 450°F.
Drain hens and arrange, cut side down, on rack in roasting pan.
Roast until cooked through, about 35 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk 1 1/4 cups coconut milk and 1 1/4 teaspoons curry paste in heavy medium saucepan to blend.
Boil until sauce is reduced to 3/4 cup, about 8 minutes.
Season sauce to taste with salt.
Spoon sauce onto plates.
Place hens atop sauce.
Servings
4 servings
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition Per Serving - Calories: 540; Total Fat: 43g (Saturated Fat: 32g); Cholesterol: 160mg; Sodium: 350mg; Total Carbohydrates: 5g (Dietary Fiber: 1g, Sugars: 2g); Protein: 34g
*Nutrition information is provided as a general estimate only. Nutrient information is not available for all ingredients, and is based on available nutrient data. Variations may occur based on ingredient brands and preparation methods.
🧑‍🍳 The Cook:  Carol Jancsi 🔑 Keywords: Asian, Cornish game hen, coconut milk, lemongrass, Thai
🗂️ Categories: 🥡 Asian Food, 🍗 Chicken & Other Poultry
📚 Cookbooks: From The Ferguson Family, Cooking With "Cow" (Carol Jancsi), The TFR Cookbook
Curried Game Hens was added on March 02, 2009 and last updated on April 25, 2025.
📄 A Quick Note About The Recipes At The Ferguson Recipes: We love sharing recipes, but please be aware that most haven't been professionally tested in our kitchen or independantly verified. Your safety is important to us, so always practice safe food handling and cooking techniques. Cook smart and use your best judgment! Have questions about a specific recipe? Feel free to reach out to us.
Uncle Dave's Husky Treats
Uncle Dave's Husky Treats were first made for my nephew's high school soccer team: Hughson High School Husky Soccer Team, 1995 - 1996. They have been a favorite of our family and friends for almost 30 years.
Not much has changed since I first started making them, except you now have to buy Skor Toffee Bits online. I have not found any suitable substitute. Husky Treats
About "Cooking with Carl, Hugh and your Friends"
In 1974, J. Carl Ferguson, Jr. of Kaiser Aluminum, and Hugh Griffiths of Sangamo Electric, put together a cookbook for the annual meeting of the E.E.I. Purchasing and Stores Committee (an electrical products industry group). This cookbook included many recipes of the committee members and their wives - mostly the wives - and was called "Cooking with Carl, Hugh and Your Friends". I have tried, as much as possible, to leave the text exactly as written, except where it didn't make sense (and a couple of them still don't make sense, but they're in the cookbook anyway). The women who contributed most of the recipes were middle-class housewives, many of whom were born during the depression and grew up during WWII. Most of them didn't work outside the home; they stayed home to take care of the kids and the house. This was just before the birth of "women's liberation", and many of them were identified by their husband's name: Mrs. John Smith, for example. The nice thing about "Carl and Hugh" is that it does give you a glimpse into what families were eating in the 60s and 70s.

By the way, we haven't tested many of these recipes, so if you find an error, let us know. Some of these recipes are fairly old and ingredients commonly available when they were written may not be so common now. Many of the recipes suggest using "oleo", which is what margarine used to be called, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Also, I recently noticed that there are a lot of recipes that include MSG as an ingredient. Most of them are probably fine without it.
Nuts & Bolts
This is one of our absolute family favorites! And it also happens to be the first** recipe ever entered into The Ferguson Recipes, almost 19 years ago! You can read more about our version in the recipe's comments, but the most important things to remember is that it takes a lot of time, a lot of good, fresh ingredients, and a lot of love to make this the best Nuts & Bolts ever!
**The sharp-eyed among you will notice that it is recipe #6. Because the database assigns a new number to every entry, it is likely that #1 thru #5 were failures that occurred during the code development.
Nuts & Bolts
Spoon Bread Old Virginia
Our oldest family recipe from Missouri Ann Ferguson, grandmother of J. Carl Ferguson, Jr. (and my great-grandmother), in her own handwriting. UPDATE (3/09/25): Missouri Anne was 3 years old in 1864, so I am going out on a limb here and guess she was neither married nor writing down recipes then!
Written by Missouri Ann Ferguson in 1864
About "The Politics of Cuisine"
"The Politics of Cuisine" is an upcoming publicatioon by University of California, Merced Political Science professors Nathan Monroe and Courtenay Conrad, dedicated to investigating how politics--government actions, and citizens reactions to those actions--shape and change cuisine. Here we bring these stories to life by sharing the recipes behind the stories!
About "The Sears Sun"
Way back in my sordid past, sometime in the middle 1990s, I helped put together a collection of recipes by folks at my work called "The Sears Sun". You guessed it: I worked at Sears in Modesto, California, for waaaay too long. The cookbook never got printed, but it has remained alive on my computer and it is part of The Ferguson Recipes. Some of the recipes are just plain weird. I think there is one for Italian Chicken that involves dumping a bottle of Wishbone Italian on chicken for a few hours and then cooking it. Simple, but weird.
About "Cooking With Cow"
"Cooking With Cow" has nothing to do with beef. Well, there might be some beef recipes in there, but Cow is actually a nickname for my sister, Carol Ferguson Jancsi. She put together her cookbook over many years, giving out new pages as she added them. Unlike the Carl and Hugh recipes, most of Cow's recipes have been tested by someone still living to tell about it.
About "The Gussie Files"
Our Aunt Gussie Rush left a big card file full of recipes, most of them neatly type on 3" x 5" index cards. As of the date below, I have begun transcribing those recipes. Gussie was born in 1911 and died in 1997; most of her recipes are from the 1940s thru the 1980s. There is a lot of margarine and a lot of shortening, and a lot of terms that we don't even use today.
One thing I do love about Gussie's files is that the recipe cards are impeccably typed, as she had been an executive secretary for most of her career. It is these cards that influenced the way I want measurements and abbreviations to be formatted here.
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