hahabogus > wrote in message >.. .
> I'm confused! In the RFC FAQ spatchcock is defined below. But I have many
> recipes where you spatchcock a chicken. In those recipes spatchcocking is
> basically butterflying the chicken by cutting out the backbone and
> flattening out the chicken prior to grilling/roasting. Used mostly as a
> time saver.
>
>
> So which is it? A actual breed of fowl or a cooking method?
>
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> 1.8 Meats
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> If a recipe calls for spatchcocks, you can use Cornish game hens
>
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Spatchcocking is the butterflying method you mention - perhaps it's
one of those things where the verb is now the noun...English language,
ever changing. ;-)

N.