Blanquette of Turkey

Ingredients

• one tablespoonful of best butter
• one dessert-spoonful of flour
• one-half cupful of highly seasoned white stock
• one-half cupful of thick cream
• one pint of breast of cold turkey
• the well-beaten yolks of two eggs
• salt, paprika and grated nutmeg to taste, and a few drops of onion juice.

Method

1. 1

   Heat butter in a chafing-dish, stir in flour and cook for 2 minutes.

2. 2

   Add white stock, thick cream, lemon juice, and seasonings.

3. 3

   Simmer for 3 minutes, then add turkey and cook for 5 minutes more.

4. 4

   Stir in beaten egg yolks and serve immediately.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from High living (1904) by Linie Loyall McLaren,, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BLANQUETTE OF TURKEY — Heat one tablespoonful of best butter in the blazer of the chafing-dish ; stir in one dessert-spoonful of flour, and cook for two min- utes ; then add one-half cupful of highly seasoned white stock, one-half cupful of thick cream, a dash of lemon juice, salt, paprika and grated nutmeg to taste, and a few drops of onion juice. Reduce the flame and simmer three minutes ; then add one pint of breast of cold turkey, cut in small pieces, and cook five minutes more. Stir in the well-beaten yolks of two eggs

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