Name: Roast Turkey
Ingredients: 1 turkey; 2-3 sausages

Roast Turkey

Ingredients

1 turkey
2-3 sausages

Directions

Prepare the turkey as you would for roast chicken.
Lay 2-3 sausages on top of the turkey while roasting to baste it and add flavor.

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 and most of its flavor.
Sausages: Release fat as they cook, which drips down over the turkey to baste it and add flavor.

“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.