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Roast Turkey

A turkey roasted with forcemeat stuffing, breast-bone broken, sinews removed, and cooked like a chicken.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Roast Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the forcemeat stuffing for the turkey.

  2. Break the breast-bone before trussing the turkey.

  3. Remove the sinews from the legs.

Stuff and roast

  1. Stuff the turkey with the forcemeat.

  2. Roast the turkey as you would a chicken.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Turkey
Forms the main body of the dish, providing the bulk of the meat to be roasted.
Forcemeat stuffing
Fills the cavity, adding moisture and flavour to the meat as it roasts.

“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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