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Balloons From Turkey's Crops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Balloons From Turkey's Crops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the thick coat of fat from the crop.

  2. Turn the crop inside out and wash away the food.

  3. Soak the crop in water for 1-2 days.

  4. Lay it on a cloth and scrape off the internal coat with a bone or knife.

  5. Wash it well and dry it with a clean cloth.

  6. Make an incision through the external coats without cutting the membrane.

  7. Draw the coats over the neck, cut it long for convenience.

  8. Tie it firmly with silk and cut close to the body.

  9. Distend the crop with air and hang it up to dry.

  10. Optionally, paint and varnish the balloon.

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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