11 hen recipes

Roasted cornish hens marinated overnight in lemon, fresh ginger, honey, and lemongrass. A bright, citrusy take on individual roast birds for an elegant dinner.

Roasted Cornish hens stuffed with brown rice, pineapple, currants, and macadamia nuts, basted in a sweet red pepper jelly glaze with crystallized ginger. A showpiece dinner for entertaining.

Roasted Cornish game hens marinated in tomatillo-chipotle salsa with a creamy pan sauce, green beans, and onions. A smoky, elegant one-pan dinner with Mexican flavors.

Uncle Ben's best brownies: one-bowl cocoa brownies with a fudgy, glossy crumb. Butter melted right in the mixing bowl, four eggs for that classic shiny crackle top, and a deep cocoa hit.

Ben & Jerry's kiwi ice cream is the homemade-cookbook copycat with macerated kiwi folded into a French-style custard of whole eggs, sugar, and heavy cream. Tropical, vibrant, and unexpectedly creamy.

Uncle Ben's ham and bean soup slow-simmers navy beans with ham shanks, garlic, carrots, celery, and potatoes for a hearty, smoky bowl. Old-fashioned thrifty cold-weather meal.

Chowning's Tavern Brunswick stew: a Colonial Williamsburg classic with stewing hen, lima beans, corn, okra, tomatoes, and potatoes slow-simmered into Southern comfort.

Make Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk at home: rich chocolate ice cream loaded with white and dark chocolate chunks, pecans, walnuts, and chocolate-covered almonds.

A savory and hearty stew made with okra, juicy tomatoes, corn and potatoes.

This hearty stew is a variant on the original Brunswick stew that used wild game. In this version the game is replaced with store bought chicken.

The full three-meat Brunswick stew with chicken, beef chuck, and pork simmered for hours with fresh tomatoes, lima beans, corn, okra, and peas. This is the real-deal Southern recipe, thick, smoky, and built for feeding a crowd.