Roast Turkey

Ingredients

• a medium-sized turkey
• two onions
• one ounce of butter
• a pound of stale bread
• one-fourth of a pound of butter
• salt to taste
• a teaspoonful of flour

Method

1. 1

   Prepare turkey, mix onions, butter, stale bread, gizzard, liver, salt, and pepper.

2. 2

   Stuff turkey, roast with butter and water, basting frequently.

3. 3

   Thicken gravy with butter and flour before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 85. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Roast Turkey Clean and prepare a medium-sized turkey for roast- ing. Cut two onions in pieces, and put in sauce-pan with one ounce of butter and color slightly. Grate a pound of stale bread; add this to the onions with the gizzard and liver chopped fine, one-fourth of a pound of butter, and salt and pepper to taste, and mix lightly together. Stuff turkey with this mixture, sew up the opening and put to roast with a little butter on top, and a half teacupful of water. Roast in a moderate oven, allowing fifteen minutes to the pound, basting frequently. Renew the water as often as necessary, using boiling water for the purpose. When ready to serve, thicken the gravy with a teaspoonful of butter rubbed with a teaspoonful of flour

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