Baked Turkey

Ingredients

• Choose a plump turkey of nine or ten pounds.
• rub with salt
• rub inside and out with salt and pepper
• Rub the outsides of the turkey with lard

Method

1. 1

   Pick the turkey without scalding, pour boiling water over it, singe with lighted paper, wash, wipe dry, rub with salt, and let sit overnight.

2. 2

   Rinse, rub with salt and pepper, place on a rack in a covered baking pan, add hot water, and rub with lard to prevent blistering.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Turkey. — Choose a plump turkey of nine or ten pounds. Pick it without scalding, removing each feather care- fully; then pour over it boiling water to plump it, after which singe with a piece of lighted writing paper, so that no particle of down remains. Wash thoroughly inside and out, wipe dry, rub with salt, and let remain over night, or longer. When ready to cook, rinse thoroughly and rub inside and out with salt and pepper. Place on the rack in a covered baking pan, and add some hot water. Rub the outsides of the turkey with lard

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.