Name: To Roast a Turkey
Ingredients: 1 young turkey; 1 teaspoon baking soda; coarse sea salt

To Roast a Turkey

Ingredients

1 young turkey
1 teaspoon baking soda
coarse sea salt

Directions

Remove all feathers from the turkey carefully.
Singe it over a burning newspaper on the stove.
Draw the turkey, being careful not to break any internal organs.
Remove the crop and tie the neck close to the body.
Rinse the inside of the turkey with several waters, adding baking soda to the second-to-last rinse.
Wipe the turkey dry inside and out with a clean cloth.
Rub the inside with coarse sea salt.
Prepare your preferred stuffing and fill the body and breast.
Sew up the opening with strong thread and tie the wings and legs to the body.

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.