Stuffing for Turkey
Ingredients
Directions
Make the stuffing
Combine chopped truffles and grated bacon in a stew pan.
Soak the mixture with spices and a bay leaf.
Stuff and rest the turkey
Stuff the turkey with the mixture.
Cover the turkey with slices of bacon.
Let the turkey sit for three days to absorb the flavors.
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
- Truffles
- Provide the dominant aroma that flavors the stuffing and, through it, the turkey.
- Bacon
- Adds fat and savoury flavour, keeping the stuffing moist as it soaks and rests.
The step that matters
Letting the turkey sit for three days. Aromatic compounds from the stuffing diffuse slowly into the surrounding meat over time. Too short a rest leaves the flavour mostly in the stuffing rather than absorbed into the turkey.
“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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