Roast Turkey Stuffed

Ingredients

• a medium-sized turkey
• two onions
• two ounces of lard
• a pound of bread
• a little salt
• two pinches of pepper
• the same of sage
• a pinch of thyme
• a little butter
• a wineglass of water

Method

1. 1

   Prepare turkey for roasting.

2. 2

   Cook onions in lard, soak bread in water, then mix with onions, turkey's liver, heart, salt, pepper, sage, and thyme.

3. 3

   Stuff turkey, sew it up, roast with butter and water for 45 minutes, and serve with strained liquid.

As published

This recipe was extracted from French dishes for American tables (1886) by Caron, Pierre, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Roast Turkey stuffed. Clean and pre- pare a medium-sized turkey for roasting. Cut two onions in pieces, and put them in a saucepan with two ounces of lard, and color them lightly. Soak a pound of bread in water, from which press the water, add the bread to your onions, with the turkey's liver and heart chopped very fine, a little salt, two pinches of pepper, the same of sage, a pinch of thyme, and mix all well together. Stuff the inside of the turkey with this mixture, sew up the opening through which you have introduced the stuffing, and put it to roast, with a little butter on top, and a wineglass of water

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