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Turkey for Boiling

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Turkey for Boiling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the legs off the turkey.

  2. Insert your middle finger into the inside and raise the skin of the legs.

  3. Tuck the legs under the apron of the turkey.

  4. Skewer the joint of the wing and the middle joint of the leg, running it through the body and the other leg and wing.

  5. Place the liver and gizzard in the pinions, ensuring to clean the gizzard beforehand.

  6. Remove the gall-bladder from the liver.

  7. Turn the small end of the pinion on the back and tie it.

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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