Scalloped Turkey

Ingredients

• a cold turkey
• cracker crumbs
• milk
• the gravy left from the turkey
• two eggs
• salt
• pepper
• butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut the meat from the bones of a cold turkey, remove skin and gristle, and chop the meat fine.

2. 2

   In a buttered dish, layer cracker crumbs moistened with milk, then spread a layer of minced turkey with bits of stuffing, pepper, salt, and small pieces of butter.

3. 3

   Repeat layers until nearly full.

4. 4

   Before the upper crust, pour in the gravy, cover with a crust of cracker crumbs soaked in milk, seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, and beaten eggs.

5. 5

   Spread over the top and bake well.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 489. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SCALLOPED TURKEY. Cut the meat from the bones of a cold turkey, remove the skin and gristle, and chop the meat fine ; put on the bottom of a buttered dish a layer of cracker crumbs, moisten with milk, then spread a layer of the minced turkey with bits of the stuffing, pepper, salt and small pieces of butter ; then another layer of crackers, and so on, until the dish is nearly full. Before putting- on the upper crust pour in the gravy left from the turkey, cover with a crust of cracker crumbs soaked in milk, seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, and beaten up light with two eggs

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