Boiled Turkey

Ingredients

• a turkey weighing about nine or ten pounds
• a quart of small oysters
• a quart of grated bread crumbs
• two level tablespoonfuls of salt
• half a teaspoonful of pepper
• a grain of cayenne
• a quarter of a cupful of butter
• two eggs, beaten slightly

Method

1. 1

   Singe, draw, and wash the turkey.

2. 2

   Stuff with the dressing made from oysters, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, cayenne, butter, and beaten eggs.

3. 3

   Sew up and truss the turkey.

4. 4

   Dredge a cloth with flour, wrap the turkey, and plunge it into boiling water.

5. 5

   Boil rapidly for 15 minutes, then simmer for 3 hours.

6. 6

   Serve with oyster sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 152. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Turkey. Singe, draw, and wash a turkey weighing about nine or ten pounds, and stuff with a dressing made by chop- ping a quart of small oysters, rather coarse, and adding to them a quart of grated bread crumbs, two level table- spoonfuls of salt, half a teaspoonful of pepper, a grain of cayenne, a quarter of a cupful of butter, and two eggs, beaten slightly

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