Name: To Roast a Turkey
Ingredients: 45 have some boiling water in the bottom of the tin kitchen; half done; pepper; salt

To Roast a Turkey

Ingredients

45 have some boiling water in the bottom of the tin kitchen
half done
pepper
salt

Directions

FAMILY RECEIPT BOOK. 45
have some boiling water in the bottom of the tin kitchen : when half done, sprinkle with pepper and salt, baste and turn it often, make a gravy with the giblets hashed ; season with pepper and salt ; stir a little brown flour in the gravy ; send it to table in a gravy boat. A large turkey will take three hours to roast.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

6Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

2 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.