Boiled Turkey

Ingredients

• Put an old turkey hen on to boil
• half a dozen hard-boiled eggs
• a pint of cold water
• a gill of flour
• a large slice of butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil the turkey for about two hours.

2. 2

   Prepare egg sauce by stewing chopped eggs in water, adding flour, and seasoning.

3. 3

   Dress the turkey with the sauce before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Jane Hamilton's recipes (1909) by Charlotte Mason Poindexter, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Put an old turkey hen on to boil about two hours, not longer, before dinner, in as much water as will cover it. Tie the wings to the sides. As the water boils down, leaving the turkey uncovered, it must be turned occasionally, so that each part of it may be equally done. Salt to season. About ten or fifteen minutes before the tur- key is done, take half a dozen hard-boiled eggs, cut them up fine, put them in a skillet with a pint of cold water, put the skillet on the fire, and let the eggs and water stew thoroughly ; stir in about a gill of flour with (52) JANE HAMILTON'S RECIPES the eggs and water before you put them over the fire instead of afterward. Season with salt, skim off the oily particles that rise to the surface of the water in which the turkey has been boiled, and put with the egg sauce, and just before taking the sauce off the fire stir in a large slice of butter

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