Boned Turkey

Ingredients

• Choose a fat hen turkey of some six or seven pounds weight
• Chop fine a pound and a half of veal or fresh pork
• a slice of ham
• one teaspoonful of salt
• a saltspoonful each of mace
• and pepper
• half a saltspoonful of cayenne
• the juice of a lemon
• Cut half a pound of cold boiled smoked tongue into dice
• two onions stuck with two cloves each
• Remove the fat from the stock, and heat three pints of it
• adding two-thirds of a package of gelatine
• by cutting up, and boiling in the stock for it, half of a red beet

Method

1. 1

   Cut off the legs, wings, and neck of the turkey.

2. 2

   Make a clean cut down the back and remove the flesh.

3. 3

   Chop veal, pork, and ham, season, and layer with tongue in the turkey.

4. 4

   Roll and sew the turkey, boil in salted water with bones and onions for four hours.

5. 5

   Cool in the liquor, press, and remove fat.

6. 6

   Serve with jelly made from the stock.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 100. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boned Turkey. — This is a delicate dish, and is usually regarded as an impossibility for any ordinary house-keeper; and, unless one is getting up a supper or other entertainment, it is hardly worth while to undertake it. If the legs and wings are left on, the boning becomes more difficult. The best plan is to cut off both them and the neck, boiling all with the tur- key, and using the meat for croquettes or hash. Draw only the crop and windpipe, as the turkey is more easily handled before dressing. Choose a fat hen turkey of some six or seven pounds weight, and cut off legs up to second joint, with half the wings and the neck. Now, with a very sharp knife, make a clean cut down the entire back, and, hold- ing the knife close to the body, cut away the flesh, first on one side, and then another, making a clean cut around the pope's nose. Be careful, in cutting down the breastbone, not to break through the skin. The entire meat will now be free from the bones, save the pieces remaining in legs and wings. Cut out these, and remove all sinews. Spread the turkey skin-side down on the board. Cut out the breasts, and cut them up in long, narrow pieces, or as you like. Chop fine a pound and a half of veal or fresh pork, and a slice of ham also. Season with one teaspoonful of salt; a saltspoonful each of mace and pepper; half a saltspoonful of cayenne and the juice of a lemon. Cut half a pound of cold boiled smoked tongue into dice. Make layers of this force-meat, putting half of it on the turkey and then the dice of tongue, with strips of the breast between, using force-meat for the last layer. Roll up the turkey in a tight roll, and sew the skin together. Now roll it firmly in a napkin, tying at the ends and across in two places to preserve the shape. Cover it with boiling water, salted as for stock, putting in all the bones and giblets, and two onions stuck with two cloves each. Boil four hours. Let it cool in the liquor. Take up in a pan, lay a tin sheet on it, and press with a heavy weight. Strain the water in which it 15a HOUSEHOLD. ■ was boiled, and put in a cold place. Next day take off the napkin and set the turkey in the oven a moment to melt off any fat. It can be sliced and eaten in this way, but makes a hand- somer dish served as follows: Remove the fat from the stock, and heat three pints of it to boiling-point, adding two-thirds of a package of gelatine which has been soaked in a little cold water. Strain a cupful of this into some pretty mold — an ear of ■ corn is a good shape — and the remainder in two pans or deep plates, coloring each with caramel — a teaspoonful in one, and two in the other. Lay the turkey on a small platter turned face down in a larger one, and, when the jelly is cold and firm, put the molded form on top of it. Now cut part of the jelly into rounds with a pepper-box top, or a small star-cutter, and arrange r.round the mold, chopping the rest and piling about the edge, so that the inner platter or stand is completely concealed. The outer row of jelly can have been colored red by cutting up, and boiling in the stock for it, half of a red beet

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