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Boiled Turkey

From The household cook book, 1902

Serves 8

Turkeys dressed in this fashion can be covered with Bechamel sauce for an elegant dish.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 119. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILED TURKEY.— Draw and clean the turkey, then bone and nearly fill the inside with veal force-meat; thrust a trimmed boiled tongue down the middle of the force=meat, and sew up the turkey securely; truss and put it as near as possible in the original shape. Sew it up in a buttered cloth

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