How to boil a TURKEY.
Written by silambarasi on October 29th, 2008 in TURKEY.
How to boil a TURKEY.
When your turkey is dress’d and drawn, truss her, cut off her feet,
take down the breast-bone with a knife, and sew up the skin again;
stuff the breast with a white stuffing.
How to make the Stuffing. Take the sweet-bread of veal, boil it,
shred it fine, with a little beef-suet, a handful of bread-crumbs, a
little lemon-peel, part of the liver, a spoonful or two of cream, with
nutmeg, pepper, salt, and two eggs, mix all together, and stuff your
turkey with part of the stuffing, (the rest you may either boil or fry
to lay round it) dridge it with a little flour, tie it up in a cloth,
and boil it with milk and water: If it be a young turkey an hour will
boil it.
How to make Sauce for the Turkey. Take a little small white gravy, a
pint of oysters, two or three spoonfuls of cream, a little juice of
lemon, and salt to your taste, thicken it up with flour and butter,
then pour it over your turkey, and serve it up; lay round your turkey
fry’d oysters, and the forc’d-meat. Garnish your dish with oysters,
mushrooms, and slices of lemon.