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To Boil a Turkey

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Boil a Turkey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select a plump hen turkey of moderate size.

  2. Carefully remove the skin from the turkey without breaking the gall bladder.

  3. Draw the bird, taking care not to damage the gall bladder.

  4. Singe the turkey using writing paper.

  5. Remove the head.

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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