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To Make Sauce for a Turkey

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To Make Sauce for a Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. CUT the crumb of a loaf of bread in thm slices, and put it in cold water with a few pepper corns, a fittte

  2. THIS VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFE. TO

  3. salt and onion — then boil it till the bread is quite soft, beat it well, put in a quarter of a pound of but- ter, two spoonsful of thick cream, and put it in the dish with the turkey.

By Mary Randolph (1762–1828). 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.

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