Boiled Turkey
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Fill a large pot with water and bring it to a boil.
Add salt to the boiling water.
Carefully place the turkey in the pot.
Boil
If the turkey is unstuffed, boil for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
If stuffed, boil for 2 hours and 30 minutes.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Turkey
- The main protein; it becomes tender and fully cooked through prolonged simmering in water.
The step that matters
Boil for the correct time based on stuffing. A stuffed turkey takes longer to reach a safe internal temperature because the stuffing insulates the cavity and slows heat transfer, so the longer time is needed.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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