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To Boil a Turkey

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select a plump hen turkey.

  2. Pick and draw the turkey carefully, avoiding the gall bladder.

  3. Singe the turkey using writing paper.

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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