Apple Stuffed Cornish Hen

You should make this if for no other reason than to experience how it makes your home smell while it bakes. It's essentially an apple pie with a chicken substituting the crust. I usually do this recipe with an orange, but today I had an apple at hand so I decided to try that, and I'm glad I did.

Ingredients
1 apple
1 Cornish hen
2 tablespoons butter, softened

1. Remove any plastic bags and hen bits from the Cornish hen. Do not forget this step.
2. Slice up an apple.
3. Coat the hen with the butter and stuff if full of as many apple pieces as you can. If you can't fit the whole apple, just set those pieces aside for when you bake.
4. Place the hen in a deep skilled with a cover at medium heat.
5. Salt and pepper the exposed side.
   
6. When the hen has browned a bit (probably at least 5 minutes for this), flip it and let that side brown for about 5 minutes. Salt and pepper the newly exposed side.
   
7. Flip the hen back over and then pour in enough white wine to cover the bottom and quickly cover. The old "wine and cover" trick.
   
8. Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
   
9. If your pan has a metal handle, transfer the entire thing to the oven. If your pan has a plastic handle, for God's sake, don't do that and transfer the hen to a baking pan or pie plate instead.
10. Bake for 40 minutes, remove from oven. You could try adding broccoli and covering it for a few minutes right after removing the hen from the oven, that was my original plan but there was a small incident.